[argyllcms] Re: More questions about monitors
- From: "Hal V. Engel" <hvengel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 17:26:30 -0700
On Thursday 02 April 2009 02:19:52 pm Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 03:14:25PM -0500, Leonard Evens wrote:
> > I found ddcontrol, which seems to be a platform independent utility.
> > I'm still not sure what it does, but it shouldn't be too hard to figure
> > that out. What does the '(g)' mean?
>
> http://ddccontrol.sourceforge.net/
>
> gddccontrol is a graphical application, ddccontrol is a console
> application. They make use of the same library.
>
> Ddc is the protocol use to talk to your monitor and allows you to
> change some of the settings you normally need to use the buttons
> on the monitor for.
Actually the protocol is DDC/CI.
>
> It doesn't really seem to be maintained anymore, but it works.
I now has a new project admin who is trying to figure out where it actually
fits into the bigger *nix picture.
>
> > > The things you can control:
> > > - Brightness/contrast
> > > - Gamma from -0.6 to +0.6 in steps of 0.2
> > > - For R, G and B you can change the level of the LED lights,
> > > really changing the white point.
> > >
> > > It also has some presests that change the whitepoint, but those
> > > are just names (warm1 - warm6, cool1 - cool6).
> > >
> > > It also has presents for sRGB and AdobeRGB, but I'm not using
> > > that.
> > >
> > > I do not have windows. The x-rite i1 that comes with it works
> > > with argyll. I think they also sell it without it, in case
> > > you already have a calibration device.
> >
> > What operating system do you use? Linux, Mac OS, ...?
>
> I use Debian.
>
>
> Kurt
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