diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i915/i915_context.c b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i915/i915_context.c
index 7d4c7cfbabb..0485be2cc1f 100644
--- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i915/i915_context.c
+++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i915/i915_context.c
@@ -143,6 +143,9 @@ i915CreateContext(const __GLcontextModes * mesaVis,
    ctx->Const.MaxTextureImageUnits = I915_TEX_UNITS;
    ctx->Const.MaxTextureCoordUnits = I915_TEX_UNITS;
    ctx->Const.MaxVarying = I915_TEX_UNITS;
+   ctx->Const.MaxCombinedTextureImageUnits =
+      ctx->Const.MaxVertexTextureImageUnits +
+      ctx->Const.MaxTextureImageUnits;
 
    /* Advertise the full hardware capabilities.  The new memory
     * manager should cope much better with overload situations:
diff --git a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_context.c b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_context.c
index 8bdda60697b..78bea829493 100644
--- a/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_context.c
+++ b/src/mesa/drivers/dri/i965/brw_context.c
@@ -111,7 +111,9 @@ GLboolean brwCreateContext( const __GLcontextModes *mesaVis,
    ctx->Const.MaxTextureUnits = MIN2(ctx->Const.MaxTextureCoordUnits,
                                      ctx->Const.MaxTextureImageUnits);
    ctx->Const.MaxVertexTextureImageUnits = 0; /* no vertex shader textures */
-   ctx->Const.MaxCombinedTextureImageUnits = 0;
+   ctx->Const.MaxCombinedTextureImageUnits =
+      ctx->Const.MaxVertexTextureImageUnits +
+      ctx->Const.MaxTextureImageUnits;
 
    /* Mesa limits textures to 4kx4k; it would be nice to fix that someday
     */