support.bibblelabs.com

[joh3]

at the moment it is only in BETA, but i have just used it successfully on my ubuntu system.

the link is

[http://www.argyllcms.com/downloadbeta.html]

you need to have your spyder installation CD, so the linux programmer can use the correct firmware.

as i say it worked great for me.

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[aldodefilippi]

that's great news. Thanks


aldo

[lenn-art]

Just FYI:
I received an email from a devver from lprof (=unofficial ). He said, that if I compile the most recent files from the CVS, i get a nice GUI with support for calibrators. The version 1.11.4 has only a ' eye-user-interface which is as we know very very accurate ... (not)

I'm not sure, AFAIK lprof (the unofficial files) are using some code from argyll cms, so the hardware support is also available as Gui.

[hvengel]

This is correct. Both ArgyllCMS 0.70 beta 7 and LProf CVS have support for the same meters and this includes the recently added Huey and Spyder2 meters.

However I must caution potential users that ColorVision, the manufacturer of the Spyder2, has a very bad attitude toward the open source community and you should avoid their products until there is a change in their position with respect to open source software. For those of you that currently have Spyder2's will be supported by the open source development community but you will not see support for Spyder3 hardware any time soon in any open source solutions.

You should also be aware that proprietary solutions that support Linux, Unix or BSD platforms other than OS/X are not likely to appear any time soon.

[lt_gustavsen]

I will like to add to this that the above person, Mr Engel can sell measuring devices cheap. Take a look at this e-mail if you are interested.

If you don’t think its necessary take a look at this image

I photographed my laptop monitor while I was viewing this image in eye of gnome. The first image is with an uncalibrated monitor.
The second image is after loading the profiles vcgt tag to the video lut. (dispwin profile.icc or xcalib profile.icc or dispwin –L if profile already set, are typical commands) The nice thing is that this will affect every program.
The third image is after loading the profile to the X11 server and reloading the image. (dispwin –S profile.icc or xicc profile.icc). This step require support in each software to use this. But not all programs support the “ICC Profiles In X Specification” like bibble, where you instead enter the profile name manually in the config.

It’s anyway exiting that the default image viewer on the gnome desktop can display image color managed, if it's compiled this way like on ubuntu. That’s what I call real eye candy.

And a last note. The quality of argyllcms is terrific. And it’s not that hard to use, actually is quite simple to build a monitor profile ( a cmyk printer profile are another story). I

[srn]

Sorry for the thread necromancy - what hardware do people recommend for this task? The ArgylCMS site says the Spyder manufacturer doesn't like linux and recommends something else!

So what hardware do people use?

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[michaelkahl]

As I posted in other threads, I had luck with argyllcms 0.7 beta and my spyder2 plus in Fedora 9.
A brief outline,
On a side note, you don't always have to setup the spyder software in WINE, like if you have the CVSpyder.dll on your isntallation CD or already extracted it from a previous windows install and saved it to a flash drive or some other storage device.

#Installed WINE#

$yum install wine

#Installed Windows Spyder2 software
Made sure Livna repository was setup (Fedora 9)#

#installed argyllcms from yum#

$sudo yum install argyllcms.i386


$spyd2en /pathname/CVSpyder2.dll

#path was ~/.wine/program folders/spyder2/CVSpyder.dll...your path may differ slightly or you may want to mv it to your home folder prior to this step to make pathing it out easier. - This extracted the firmware for my spyder2, also on some distro's make sure you have rights to use USB devices for argyllcms. I didn't have to do this for Fedora 9#

$dispcal -v -yl ~/profile.cal #<---runs calibration, setup for LCD display#

#then either use dispwin or xcalib to load your new profile#

$dispwin ~/profile.cal

#or if you have xcalib#

$xcalib ~/profile.cal

Thats a rough explanation of what I did, but I hope it can offer some help.

[boogie]

The manufacturer' s software (e.g. Spyder3Elite, i1Match or any) runs fine in VirtualBox or VMWare.

Unfortunately not with WINE, because WINE has no instant access to the USB-Ports, so your hardware will not be recognized.

For me it is more convenient to use i1Match in VirtualBox, because Argyll seems difficult to use (for me )



regards

boogie

[carpman]

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[michaelkahl]

That's a sweet script....I may have to c/p that from ya and modify as i need to.
This is where I'm still a Linux newb or noob (however you may spell). I haven't written my own shell script successfully yet. I know, I know pathetic....but I'm still learning and at least know some basics on how to get started.

[boogie]

[tracy]

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