On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 12:03 +1000, Graeme Gill wrote: > Leonard Evens wrote: > > I calibrated my monitor and printer a while ago, and I have to do it > > over again. But, of course I've forgotten how to do everything. So > > please excuse me if I ask some really stupid questions. > > I've got in the habit now of creating a "readme.txt" file in > these situations - a shortcut to recall what I discovered > and did last time I worked on a project. Cut & paste working > command lines into it, notes, gotcha's etc. I am pretty sure I have such a file, but rather than looking for it, I thought it would be easier just to follow the instructions in the documentation. > > > When I run > > dispcal -yl -r (or -R) > > I get > > dispcal: Error - icoms - set_ser_port: port number out of range! > > What does that mean? > > Sorry, not a good error message. It means that it couldn't see any > instruments. Sorry. I didn't have any instrument plugged in. For some reason I interpreted the instructions as saying that the command would tell me the state of the monitor without any instrument being available. > > spotread -D2 > > may reveal more. > > Graeme Gill. > -- Leonard Evens len@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University