[colord] colord doesn't detect my display

[Christopher James Halse Rogers]

On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 14:02 -0400, Erick Pérez wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I'm pretty new to anything related with this kind of stuff, anyway
> I want to calibrate my laptop display, but colormgr doesn't see the device.
> I'm using nvidia propietary drivers version: 280.13, and using archlinux.
> I tried nouveau, you know cause nvidia is evil with OpenSource stuff,
> but with nouveau, colormgr it did detect the display, but the
> calibrate option, was disable in the control center.
> Can someone explain me this ?

The nvidia binary driver doesn't support the XRandR 1.2 extension which
colord (or, rather, gnome-color-manager) uses, so it won't work.

I believe that the ‘calibrate’ option requires that a supported
calibration device be attached; at the moment, just the Pantone Huey is
supported.
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