Comment 83 for bug 1735594

Proposed fix worked on my old vaio too.

Error: compiz[3077]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f97f3aeb986 sp 00007ffc3be748f0 error 4 in i965_dri.so[7f97f3513000+82d000]

Machine (redacted lshw):

vaio
    description: Notebook
    product: VGN-NR498E (N/A)
    vendor: Sony Corporation
    version: C3LRAYYV
    serial: 28274739-3013909
    width: 64 bits
    capabilities: smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4 vsyscall32
    configuration: boot=normal chassis=notebook family=N/A sku=N/A uuid=546EF640-2B7E-11DD-80F1-001A80F59ED6
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: VAIO
       vendor: Sony Corporation
       physical id: 0
       version: N/A
       serial: N/A
       slot: ��@
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
          physical id: 0
          version: R2060J9
          date: 02/28/2008
          size: 101KiB
          capacity: 960KiB
          capabilities: pci pnp upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect edd int9keyboard int10video acpi usb agp smartbattery biosbootspecification netboot
     *-cpu
          description: CPU
          product: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5750 @ 2.00GHz
          vendor: Intel Corp.
          physical id: 4
          bus info: cpu@0
          version: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5750 @ 2.00GHz
          serial: N/A
          slot: N/A
          size: 1995MHz
          capacity: 2GHz
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 167MHz
     *-pci
          description: Host bridge
          product: Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub
          vendor: Intel Corporation
          physical id: 100
          bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
          version: 0c
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
        *-display:0
             description: VGA compatible controller
             product: Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary)
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
             version: 0c
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
             configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
             resources: irq:16 memory:fc000000-fc0fffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:1800(size=8) memory:c0000-dffff

$ apt policy libgl1-mesa-dri
libgl1-mesa-dri:
  Installed: 17.2.4-0ubuntu1~16.04.4
  Candidate: 17.2.4-0ubuntu1~16.04.4
  Version table:
 *** 17.2.4-0ubuntu1~16.04.4 400
        400 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     17.2.4-0ubuntu1~16.04.2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
     11.2.0-1ubuntu2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

thanks!