On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Graeme Gill <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > John Palmieri wrote: > > Hello, someone at my office bought a Spyder 4 so I decided to see if I > > could get it working under Fedora 17. After fixing some udev rules and > > gnome-color-manager code the spyder was running fine during the > > pre-calibration phase which uses dispcal. However, when it got to the > > actual calibration phase, dispread could not read from the device. Here > is > > the command that is run along with the output. > > > spyd2: Read bytes retry with ICOM err 0x2000 > > Hi, > is something like libmtp running ? It's known to randomly open > USB devices, and interfere with instrument operation. If so, try disabling > it in udev. > > [ Latter versions of libmtp are meant to notice if a device has > COLOR_MEASUREMENT_DEVICE set, and not attempt to open them. ] > > Graeme Gill. > > > Actually it looks either like poor USB 3 support or Lenovo internally uses usb hubs for some of their ports. Attaching to a different port on the back instead of the side allows the calibration to complete. -- John (J5) Palmieri