screen sharing

Using Screen Share, a Mac Mini, and QC

gabeshaughnessy's picture

I'm using Screen Share to run my Mac Mini from my laptop. I'm running os 10.6 on the laptop.

When I connect the Mac Mini to a monitor, and turn off screen sharing, everything works fine.

When I unplug the monitor from the mini and turn on screen sharing, then try to launch quartz composer, I get this error message:

"Quartz Composer requires an NVIDIA GeForce2 MX, GeForce3, GeForce4 Titanium or GeForce4 MX card or any ATI AGP Radeon card. A minimum of 16mB VRAM is required."

My Mac Mini has a NVIDIA GeForce 9400 with 256MB of Vram.

If I turn off screen sharing, launch quartz composer, then reactivate screen sharing, my compositions won't open, if I launch screen sharing with a composition open, it is just a flat grey panel in the editor window, and no output in the viewer.

Anyone found a way to work with screen sharing on a mac mini in QC? I would like to be able to install the mini up out of reach and run it with screen sharing.