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  13      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  21       <div class="title">First monitor calibration using ColorHug</div>
  22       <div class="date">31st May 2012</div>
  23       <div class="body"><p>A few days ago my color calibration gadget
  24 <a href="http://www.hughski.com/index.html">ColorHug</a> arrived in the
  25 mail, and I've had a few days to test it.  As all my machines are
  26 running Debian Squeeze, where
  27 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/colorhug-client.html">the
  28 calibration software</a> is missing (it is present in Wheezy and Sid),
  29 I ran the calibration using the Fedora based live CD.  This worked
  30 just fine.  So far I have only done the quick calibration.  It was
  31 slow enough for me, so I will leave the more extensive calibration for
  32 another day.</p>
  33
  34 <p>After calibration, I get a ICC color profile file that can be
  35 passed to programs understanding such tools.  KDE do not seem to
  36 understand it out of the box, so I searched for command line tools to
  37 use to load the color profile into X.  xcalib was the first one I
  38 found, and it seem to work fine for single monitor setups.  But for my
  39 video player, a laptop with a flat screen attached, it was unable to
  40 load the color profile for the correct monitor.  After searching a
  41 bit, I
  42 <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1347896">discovered</a>
  43 that the dispwin tool from the argyll package would do what I wanted,
  44 and a simple</p>
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  46 <p><pre>
  47 dispwin -d 1 profile.icc
  48 </pre></p>
  49
  50 <p>later I had the color profile loaded for the correct monitor.  The
  51 result was a bit more pink than I expected.  I guess I picked the
  52 wrong monitor type for the "led" monitor I got, but the result is good
  53 enough for now.</p>
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