On Sunday 27 Sep 2015 11:50:54 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 27 September 2015 10:47:51 Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 27 Sep 2015 09:58:43 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I do have the two .icc files in .local/share/icc: > > > > > > $ ls -l .local/share/icc > > > total 28K > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 prh prh 1.2K Sep 9 16:51 > > > edid-fbec4f9c1804ea718b6e1b585fc234ad.icc -rw-rw-r-- 1 prh prh 21K Sep > > > 10 10:41 GCM - Samsung - SMS27A350H - unknown (2015-09-10) > > > [04-58-44].icc > > > > > > /usr/bin/file shows them both as "ColorSync ICC Profile". I don't know > > > why there are two, nor why they have such different sizes. > > > > I'm guessing that the 'edid-fbec4f9c1804ea718b6e1b585fc234ad.icc' was > > extracted from your monitor's EEPROM chip through the i2c bus and saved > > on disk by the LiveCD you ran, but the 'GCM - Samsung - SMS27A350H - > > unknown (2015-09-10) [04-58-44].icc' was generated by the colorimeter > > during your calibration exercise. > > > > I'm also guessing that the smaller size of the first file is because your > > monitor's EDID is of an earlier version, e.g. EDID-v1.1 or some such, > > which used to only contain a 128-byte data structure. I seem to recall > > that very early EDID versions didn't even contain colospace and Gamma > > data, but may be wrong. > > I've just visited the Taxi site you mentioned to see what's there for my > monitor. Nothing! So I tried uploading my ColorHug data. The page asked for > a metadata file and a profile data file, from which I supposed that my > smaller file is metadata about the content of the larger one. But when I > tried to upload the two files on that assumption I got a server error. > Same when I tried them the other way round. > > Looking at the larger file with less, I find eight lines of binary data at > the head followed by 400-odd lines of legible textual data. Interesting > stuff, though of course I don't know what to do with it myself. > > > These are [Mick's] sizes : > > > > ls -n ~/.local/share/color/icc/devices/Display/ > > total 800 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 1001 1001 1944 Sep 18 18:16 ACI ASUS VS239 > > EALMTF200702_edid.icc > > -rw-r--r-- 1 1001 1001 2016 Sep 18 18:16 Dell Computer DELL ST2320L > > MP82K0712EJL_edid.icc > > -rw-r--r-- 1 1001 1001 20884 Sep 18 19:01 P2311H 2012-06-20 2.2 MQ-HQ > > 3xCurve+MTX.icc > > -rw-r--r-- 1 1001 1001 783804 Sep 18 19:02 PA248 2015-04-18 S > > XYZLUT+MTX.icc > > > The first two are from the monitors' EDID content, the latter are the > > profiles I downloaded from the Taxi DB. Some of these contributors' > > profiles were created with spyder or other expensive colorimeters, so I > > am surmising that they capture more data points and contain more > > information, than the manufacturers EDID which is primarily contains > > other than colorspace and Gamma data. > > Lucky you! As I said, my monitor hasn't made it into the database yet. And > it seems I can't contribute to it either.
Contributing is more involved than simply downloading a profile. I think you have to use the TaxiDB API: http://sourceforge.net/p/openicc/taxi/ci/master/tree/docs/api_doc.txt I you are interested then you can contact the OpenICC project to ask for details: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc/ -- Regards, Mick
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