Imac G5 & FCP

Ola,
Yesterday i installled FCP which went fine. But then when i restarted and tried to start FCP an error occurd: "certain soft- or hardware is not found : GPA graphics card"
Is this normal? Shouldn't you be abble to run FCP 4.0 on a Imac G5 ?

People have been getting this error (need AGP graphics) when installing FCP4 on the new Dual Core machines that come with only a PCIe slots.
Do a search for Dual Core and or AGP workaround. There have been a number of posts about this particular subject.
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Richard Setterberg wrote:
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