Re: gnome_shell crash when connecting a second monitor on a ThinkPad T60

[drago01 <drago01 gmail com>]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:26 AM, Dave Johansen <davejohansen gmail com> wrote:
> Please let me know if there's a more appropriate list to post this on,
> but from examining the list of options this seemed like the most
> appropriate one.
>
> I just upgraded my ThinkPad T60 from CentOS 6 to Fedora 19 and
> whenever I connect it to the dock with a second VGA monitor connected
> to the dock, gnome_shell crashes. This worked fine under CentOS 6 and
> the keyboard and mouse continue to work, but I can't do anything with
> the shell.

The problem is  that you are over the texture size limit of your GPU:

glxinfo -l | grep GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE

(should be 2048 in your case). So your combined res cannot be wider
then 2048 in either direction).

Adding the second monitor exceeds the limit.