Hey there, I love that this blog is still going strong! If you are shopping for a (relatively cheap) colorimeter, check Huey 🙂Īnd with that, the last photography thing that I needed to do under MS-Windows is gone… So if you have a Spyder 1 or 2, support for Linux is (almost) here. The correct response to ColorVision not wanting anything to do with open source is to return the favor and have nothing to do with them. The ugly is that ColorVision is just releasing a Spyder 3 to the market and has been quite aggressively dismissing any idea of support towards OSS – as you can read in this long thread on the OpenICC mailing list. That is for the good – Graeme Gill, you utterly rock!! OK this is not a scientific test (!!) but it tells me nothing is way off.īy the way, my colorimeter is a (primitive) Spyder 1, so both the Spyder 1 and 2 are supported. This process spit out a test.cal file which was loaded via:Īs far as I can see (this was just a quick first test run) the result is as good as can be – I tried loading a profile made under Windows and the Linux one my display was very similar. The calibration took forever and a day to complete (measuring a gazillion of patches, averaging plenty of deltaE, checking candelas/m2 and iterating again and again – well 64 patches time 3 iterations). Since this was just a test run (and this was not my photo monitor anyway), I hit 6. y l tells dispcal to calibrate an LCD monitor (-y c for CRT)Ģ) White point (Color temperature, R,G,B, Gain)ģ) White level (CRT: Contrast, LCD: Brightness) I had to run dispcal as root otherwise it wouldn’t allow me to access the usb colorimeter – I guess changing the permissions of /dev/bus/usb/… would have been a more elegant solution… Now the main task is to figure out the command line options available and what they do 🙂 The file is CVSpyder.dll, which you can also pass as a argument to spyd2en, in case.Īfterwards, you can just plug your Spyder and use dispcal to start your monitor calibration. You should find there a spyd2en utility that takes a file from the Spyder driver to use it in Linux (yes, that injects proprietary code in ArgyllCMS). If all compilation goes well, go into the spectro directory. unzip the downloaded file – watch out: there’s no folder created and the content is extracted into your current directory! download latest Argyll version (use a beta version if available)Ħ. create a directory for Argyll in /usr/src, e.g.ĥ. install the X11 XVidMode development packageĤ. Stefan Dohla provided an easy way to compile ArgyllCMS under Ubuntu Gutsy:Ĭhange the line src:x:40: to src:x:40:yourusernameĢ. Ross Burton reported success in profiling his display with this screen calibration device. There has been some noise recently on Planet Gnome about ColorVision Spyder2 support in Linux ArgyllCMS.

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