I went to give a presentation today that I created in the latest version of Keynote (3.0), part of the iWork (’08) suite from Apple and ran into a problem that looked like this:

I started to think through the troubleshooting on this one: “I have a very new MacBook Pro computer with lots of RAM all over the place - that shouldn’t be a problem. I’m connected to a 2nd display, but I’ve done that a lot, too. My presentation worked fine three weeks ago when I gave it … oh, I’ve installed Leopard since then!”

I have to imagine that’s causing the problem. Leopard must be causing Keynote to display the “your computer may not have enough VRAM” error. I tried changing the display settings, as it suggested and the error continued. I tried mirroring the displays and that didn’t work either.

I found this tech note from Keynote 1.0 and reboote, this time with the second display connected during startup (I normally don’t have a problem adding it while the machine is running). The problem went away.

And now I’ll start looking for a fix. That’s a very un-Apple thing to have happen - especially on a very current piece of hardware!