[argyllcms] Re: Profiling my Lenovo X61 display

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Pedro Côrte-Real <pedro@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I profiled my Lenovo X61 display running Ubuntu 9.10 using argyll
> 1.1.0RC1 and later 1.1.0RC4. The resulting profiles make the display
> visibly brown when displaying black. The same exact method on my Dell
> U2410 resulted in what looks like a good profile. Here's what I did:
>
> $ dispcal -v -o <ProfileName>
> Run Check All
> Run the Ambient Light setting
> Continue to profiling
> After it runs I apply the profile with gnome-color-manager
>
> I saw there was also WhitePoint/BlackPoint but that seems to be only
> to measure it as you change the display settings. Since this is a
> laptop screen there is nothing to change (and the white point seems to
> be fixed at ~5500K).
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Pedro
>

My guess is that your Dell monitor is a very good monitor and works
nice with a matrix profile. The x61 on the other hand may work much
better with a LUT profile.

I don't think the ambient light measurements are smart on a carry
around laptop.

Lars Tore

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