сегодня, со свежими xorg-dri-intel 
и прочими обновлениями 

упало...

(II) intel(0): [DRI2] Setup complete
(**) intel(0): Framebuffer compression enabled
(**) intel(0): Tiling enabled
(**) intel(0): SwapBuffers wait enabled
(==) intel(0): VideoRam: 262144 KB
(II) intel(0): Attempting memory allocation with tiled buffers.
(II) intel(0): Tiled allocation successful.
(II) intel(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is 0x0000
(II) UXA(0): Driver registered support for the following operations:
(II)         solid
(II)         copy
(II)         composite (RENDER acceleration)
(==) intel(0): Backing store disabled
(==) intel(0): Silken mouse enabled
(II) intel(0): Initializing HW Cursor
(II) intel(0): adjusting plane->pipe mappings to allow for framebuffer compression
(II) intel(0): Fixed memory allocation layout:
(II) intel(0): 0x00000000-0x005fffff: compressed frame buffer (6144 kB, 0x000000003f800000 physical
)
(II) intel(0): 0x00600000-0x00600fff: compressed ll buffer (4 kB, 0x000000003fe00000 physical
)
(II) intel(0): 0x00601000-0x0060afff: HW cursors (40 kB, 0x000000003fe01000 physical
)
(II) intel(0): 0x0060b000-0x0060bfff: overlay registers (4 kB, 0x000000003fe0b000 physical
)
(II) intel(0): 0x007bf000:            end of stolen memory
(II) intel(0): 0x007bf000-0x0f9f3fff: DRI memory manager (248020 kB)
(II) intel(0): 0x10000000:            end of aperture
(II) intel(0): BO memory allocation layout:
(II) intel(0): 0x007bf000:            start of memory manager
(II) intel(0): 0x01000000-0x01ffffff: front buffer (16384 kB) X tiled
(II) intel(0): 0x0f9f4000:            end of memory manager
(WW) intel(0): ESR is 0x00000001, instruction error
(WW) intel(0): Existing errors found in hardware state.

Fatal server error:
Failed to submit batchbuffer: Input/output error


Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
	 at https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/
 for help. 
Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.

# rpm -qa|grep intel
xorg-drv-intel-2.9.1-alt3
xorg-dri-intel-7.7.1-alt0.d3
[root@lynx ~]# 

# uname -s -r -v
Linux 2.6.32-std-def-alt1 #1 SMP Mon Feb 1 17:04:19 UTC 2010