diff -Nur linux.old/drivers/char/drm/i810_dma.c linux.new/drivers/char/drm/i810_dma.c
--- linux.old/drivers/char/drm/i810_dma.c	Wed Feb 26 13:36:14 2003
+++ linux.new/drivers/char/drm/i810_dma.c	Wed Feb 26 13:36:20 2003
@@ -894,6 +894,7 @@
 void i810_dma_service(int irq, void *device, struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	drm_device_t	 *dev = (drm_device_t *)device;
+	if (dev && dev->dev_private && dev->counts) {
       	drm_i810_private_t *dev_priv = (drm_i810_private_t *)dev->dev_private;
    	u16 temp;
 
@@ -907,6 +908,9 @@
 
    	queue_task(&dev->tq, &tq_immediate);
    	mark_bh(IMMEDIATE_BH);
+	} else {
+	  printk(KERN_CRIT __FUNCTION__ ": NULL pointer\n");
+	}
 }
 
 void i810_dma_immediate_bh(void *device)