I have the same crash with the vesa driver. I use a Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device. The vesa driver works for me under dapper but after upgrading to edgy it crashes. Here is the backtrace from the X server:
0: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80c3971] 1: [0xffffe420] 2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so(fbCopyNtoN+0x20b) [0xb7a8778b] 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so(fbCopyRegion+0x95) [0xb7a866b5] 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so(fbDoCopy+0x46f) [0xb7a86cdf] 5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so(fbCopyArea+0x78) [0xb7a86ea8] 6: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x815a019] 7: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x81560a5] 8: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x8108404] 9: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x8119c01] 10: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x8153e4b] 11: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x8154245] 12: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(compPaintWindowBackground+0x6d) [0x8191b7d] 13: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(miWindowExposures+0xfa) [0x8109eda] 14: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(miHandleValidateExposures+0x78) [0x8121898] 15: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x80d0688] 16: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so [0xb7b75204] 17: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x80cbe13] 18: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(xf86SwitchMode+0xce) [0x80c10fe] 19: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x80e4300] 20: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x80e45ea] 21: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x8151442] 22: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(Dispatch+0x18f) [0x808693f] 23: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(main+0x485) [0x806e715] 24: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0xb7cf18cc] 25: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xa1) [0x806da51] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting -- vesa & vga driver doesn't work on legacy S3 video card https://launchpad.net/bugs/59931 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
