Really the bug is more severe than just failing (and innocent) xscreensaver. backtrace: #0 0x00002ade19df2582 in _mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective () from /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so #1 0x00002ade19d85909 in ?? () from /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so #2 0x00002ade19d7bd7b in _tnl_run_pipeline () from /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so #3 0x00002ade19d7c2a4 in _tnl_draw_prims () from /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so #4 0x00002ade19d7454e in vbo_exec_vtx_flush () from /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so #5 0x00002ade19d700fd in vbo_exec_FlushVertices () from /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so #6 0x00002ade19cfbe2e in _mesa_Flush () from /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so #7 0x000000000040486a in draw_polytopes (mi=0x7fff93e3fd30) at polytopes.c:3064 #8 0x000000000040738b in xlockmore_screenhack (dpy=0x63fb30, window=73400322, want_writable_colors=, want_uniform_colors=0, want_smooth_colors=0, want_bright_colors=0, event_mask=66, hack_init=0x404ec0 , hack_draw=0x4046d0 , hack_reshape=0x404e70 , hack_handle_events=0x404ce0 , hack_free=0) at xlockmore.c:444 #9 0x0000000000404fc8 in screenhack (dpy=0x6c75c0, window=6922368) at ./../xlockmore.h:158 #10 0x0000000000405a81 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fff93e404c8) at ./../screenhack.c:679 #11 0x00002ade18810b44 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 #12 0x0000000000403199 in _start () BUT! the point is not a backtrace, but a code inside driver: (gdb) disassemble Dump of assembler code for function _mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective: 0x00002ade19df2530 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+0>: mov 0x10(%rdx),%ecx 0x00002ade19df2533 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+3>: movzbl 0x14(%rdx),%eax 0x00002ade19df2537 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+7>: mov %ecx,0x10(%rdi) 0x00002ade19df253a <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+10>: movl $0x4,0x18(%rdi) 0x00002ade19df2541 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+17>: orl $0xf,0x1c(%rdi) 0x00002ade19df2545 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+21>: test %ecx,%ecx 0x00002ade19df2547 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+23>: xchg %ax,%ax 0x00002ade19df254a <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+26>: je 0x2ade19df25b3 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+131> 0x00002ade19df254c <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+28>: mov 0x8(%rdx),%rdx 0x00002ade19df2550 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+32>: mov 0x8(%rdi),%rdi 0x00002ade19df2554 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+36>: movd (%rsi),%mm0 0x00002ade19df2557 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+39>: pxor %mm7,%mm7 0x00002ade19df255a <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+42>: punpckldq 0x14(%rsi),%mm0 0x00002ade19df255e <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+46>: movq 0x20(%rsi),%mm2 0x00002ade19df2562 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+50>: prefetch (%rdx) 0x00002ade19df2565 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+53>: movd 0x28(%rsi),%mm1 0x00002ade19df2569 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+57>: xchg %ax,%ax 0x00002ade19df256c <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+60>: punpckldq 0x38(%rsi),%mm1 0x00002ade19df2570 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+64>: prefetchw 0x20(%rdi) 0x00002ade19df2574 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+68>: movq (%rdx),%mm4 0x00002ade19df2577 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+71>: movq 0x8(%rdx),%mm5 0x00002ade19df257b <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+75>: movd 0x8(%rdx),%mm3 0x00002ade19df257f <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+79>: movq %mm5,%mm6 0x00002ade19df2582 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+82>: pfmul %mm0,%mm4 0x00002ade19df2586 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+86>: punpckldq %mm5,%mm5 0x00002ade19df2589 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+89>: pfmul %mm2,%mm5 0x00002ade19df258d <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+93>: pfsubr %mm7,%mm3 0x00002ade19df2591 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+97>: pfmul %mm1,%mm6 0x00002ade19df2595 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+101>: pfadd %mm4,%mm5 0x00002ade19df2599 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+105>: pfacc %mm3,%mm6 0x00002ade19df259d <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+109>: movq %mm5,(%rdi) 0x00002ade19df25a0 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+112>: add %rax,%rdx 0x00002ade19df25a3 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+115>: movq %mm6,0x8(%rdi) 0x00002ade19df25a7 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+119>: add $0x10,%rdi 0x00002ade19df25ab <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+123>: dec %ecx 0x00002ade19df25ad <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+125>: prefetch 0x20(%rdx) 0x00002ade19df25b1 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+129>: jne 0x2ade19df2570 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+64> 0x00002ade19df25b3 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+131>: femms 0x00002ade19df25b5 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+133>: retq 0x00002ade19df25b6 <_mesa_x86_64_transform_points4_perspective+134>: nopw %cs:0x0(%rax,%rax,1) End of assembler dump. We see that SIGILL fires at the first pfmul pfmul is AMD 3-D Now opcode, and it fails since I have Intel Core 2 Duo CPU. So the bug can manifest itself in any app with OpenGL, this could possibly lock up the screen, is this enough for High priority?