Hey Jerry, its not the vram thats important, its the card and bus!! According to Apple you must use AGP and the card must be at least a radeon or GForce 2. Thats why the new iBook uses the Radeon mobility with 16Mb of vram, the vram is important up to 16Mb after that you must have the proper graphics card; in fact Quartz extreme is not supported on Macs using PCI graphics, such as the G4(PCI) and the Blue & White G3's even if you have a 32Mb Radeon 7000 installed. However their is a hack to this that will make it work but it is not supported, mainly because the PCI bus does not provide the speed or bandwidth needed. Anyway hope that clears things up a bit.
Thanks Mike On Thursday, September 26, 2002, at 05:03 PM, Obrecht, Jerry A (N-Boeing) wrote: > 10.2, though, can get along without 32MB of VRAM. If a Mac does have > 32MB > of VRAM, then 10.2 uses Quartz Extreme for graphical rendering. If > the Mac > doesn't have the 32MB of VRAM, then 10.2 utilizes a method that is > compatible with the lesser amount; as you can see, I don't know what > that > other method is, but suffice it to say that 10.2 will render graphics > using > the onboard video without needing 32MB of VRAM. -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
