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JohnCoffee · Jan 17, 2003, 09:41 AM

Had today a presentation with Keynote infront of a audience with a projector. Hooked up the VGA cable and wanted to start it.

Boom ! Not enought VRAM ! Message that I need at least 8MB of VRAM, which I obviously have on my Powerbook G4/500. At least the system profiler tells me so.

Actually the whole thing worked before on a 19" CRT when hooked up before the presentation in my office. But now it didn't. How embarrassing.

What I tried: (actually all the hints desribed on Apples Support page)

- mirrored the screens
- reduced no. of colors to thousand
- reduced resolution
- reduced frame rate.

none of theses things worked. And theses are also Apples suggestion what to do. It worked on the CRT before when I tried with a simple 3 slide presentation. But this time I prepared a 15 slide thing with embedded QT movies etc. and didn't try that before.

any recommendation what to do ? (btw, I hate to export it to QT allways to do a presentation nor I like to convert it to PP - there are no such great transitions..)

thanks for help !

Finrock · Jan 17, 2003, 09:49 AM

I had the same thing happen to me. I quit Keynote, launched it again and it worked fine.

It apparantly doesn't like it when you switch resolutions, turn on an external display or turn on mirroring while the program is running.

-finrock

JohnCoffee · Jan 17, 2003, 09:58 AM

Originally posted by Finrock:
I had the same thing happen to me. I quit Keynote, launched it again and it worked fine.

It apparantly doesn't like it when you switch resolutions, turn on an external display or turn on mirroring while the program is running.

-finrock

arrrghhhh. suddenly remember that I had hooked up my 19" CRT before I actually fired up Keynote in the office. That wasn't the case for the presentation - I woke up the PB from sleep, (as usual) and Keynote ran already before connecting to the projector.

I'll try that next time. Thanks for your suggestion !

CheesePuff · Jan 17, 2003, 02:21 PM

Maybe when it says it needs 8 MB... it needs 8 MB for the computer and 8 MB for the output, so you would need a 16 MB video card.

Maybe...

Sarc · Jan 17, 2003, 03:02 PM

was thinking the same thing, for instance, Quartz Extreme will work on a 16meg card on a single monitor, but won't work when the exact same card has 2 monitors hooked ... cuz the VRAM splits ... leaving 8megs to each monitor.

mitchell_pgh · Jan 17, 2003, 03:05 PM

One thing is for sure... it won't run that well on anything other then a new-ish system...

I love this app, but it has a little growing up to do.

but those translations are AMAZING you can get a TON of VERY cool graphics on one page...

I just wish it had the two things I need... (automatic/show mode and "jump to slide")