no, but the issue is that X11 wants to know at startup at what bit-depth it should work (16-bit colour, 32-bit-colour). it gets this information from your graphics card driver, but when none of the available drivers work for your card (like in your case, no CI/QE means no working driver) it won't get this info and it will just crash and restart. this is not fixable AFAIK, unless you can hard code a fallback into X11.

I had the same issue with a radeon x1600pro which I sold and replaced by a geforce 7300gs