[argyllcms] Re: Target Black problems with ColorMunki & NEC 3090
- From: Graeme Gill <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:09:38 +1100
David Heinrich wrote:
Thanks, I'm surprised that Linux as no standardized way to read/write the
DDC.
X11 uses the DDC to read the EDID, but there is no API that an application
can use. It's something that should be added to XRandR, but it isn't
seen as a high priority by the X11 developers at the moment.
(Hint, it might help if there are a few polite requests to the Xorg mailing
list, explaining why it would be a good thing to add this. Of course
it would be even better if someone coded up a solution and contributed it.)
It is also annoying when vendors making as much on higher margin
premium products like the 3090 don't publish open hardware specs so that
drivers can be developed. (seeing as how the monitor could always just be
priced $90 higher anyways).
That's the nature of it. Vendors seem to think that it's some advantage
to keep it secret. Of course it's not actually secret because it's got
to go across the cable to the monitor, but but someone has to bother
to do the reverse engineering.
Graeme Gill.
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