Feb 17, '09 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
If your card doesn't support QE, then you can run iPhoto, but you won't be able to edit photos correctly -- you just get a white box, or a black screen in full screen mode. Oddly, if you do something such as click the rotate button, it does actually rotate the image, even though you can't see it.
As a bit of background to this, as my main machine I run a G5 XServe with twin 2.0Ghz processors and a 32mb ATI PCI graphics card (don't ask). Everything else has always worked fine, but this one is annoying because there was no prior warning when installing iLife '09. Before you spend ages tagging faces, etc., make sure you check that you can edit photos!
I believe that this was also an issue for some people in older versions, and was related to the version of the AppleAppSupport.framework installed, but I am running Leopard, so mine is 1.5 and should in theory be OK. I understand that Aperture 2.1 has similar requirements, but it won't let you install without the correct GFX card, which is a more elegant solution.
Hope this helps someone, and if anyone comes up with a solution, then please post in the comments.
[robg adds: I can't test this one, as all my machines are QE-capable. There's no mention of this restriction on the iLife system requirements page, either.]
