Thanks for the input. I disabled colortiling and installed xfce.. success! It seems like Gnome 3.6 won't work unless color tiling is enabled. I double checked the gnome session logs and don't see the previously mentioned error anymore.. just a blank desktop wallpaper across both monitors. I erased the gnome config files in .local without any success. I ran a glxinfo from .xinit, and it does confirm that Gallium is in use. (attached)