Comment 209 for bug 304871

I see this same problem with F10 release, on a Thinkpad T61 with Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 (PCI vendor/ID 8086:2a03).

EXA vs XAA doesn't matter, and neither does the suggested Legacy3D; the only workaround I've found is Option "NoAccel" "yes" in xorg.conf. Same error from dmesg:
  ...
  [drm:i915_gem_object_pin] *ERROR* Failure to bind: -12
  ...

Same error from Xorg.0.log:
  ...
  (EE) intel(0): Failed to pin front buffer: Cannot allocate memory

  Fatal server error:
  Couldn't bind memory for BO front buffer

kernel-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.5.0-3.fc10.x86_64

(Additionally there's a failure when the X server crashes that seems to disable all input, so X never exits cleanly and I can't switch to another virtual terminal. All I can do is hit the power button to cleanly reboot [i.e. the ACPI event seems to be handled properly].)