Re: Dual monitors and color syncing
Both KDesktop and imlib offer some nice calibration programs as well.
"Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> on Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 12:30:43PM +0100, Roel Schroeven
> (rschroev_nospam_ml@fastmail.fm) wrote:
>> Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>> > Hello, all
>> >
>> > Thanks to Kent West for his page on how to set up a two headed box.
>> >
>> > <http://docs.linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/10/05/025207&tid=>
>> >
>> > It worked great! Now my problem (well, one of them) is that my two
monitors
>> > have differing values for colors. One monitor has a decidedly
redder hue
>> > than the other which, by comparison, is quite greenish. The
controls on
>> > both monitors only deal with screen geometry, not color. Is this
an issue
>> > of monitor age? One is several years older than the other.
>> I don't think it's the age. At work I have two identical NEC LCD
monitors,
>> bought at the same time. Both are connected to the same ATI card, one
on the
>> digital output and one on the analog output. They too show different
color
>> values, the one being much to green (I think the one on the analog
output, but
>> I'm not sure) and the other perhaps just a bit too red.
>>
>> I've tried adjusting the colors using the controls provided by the
ATI driver
>> on Windows (we're a Windows shop), but I couldn't get it quite right.
>
> There's a gamma-correction facility in X. 'man XF86Config-4' (or
XF86Config for
> v3) and search 'Gamma'. You'll find syntax for entering corrections.
>
> Do so for one of your monitors until it's corrected (or at least
improved.
>
>
> Peace.
>
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