[Openicc] xrandr output properties / icc profiles

Kai-Uwe Behrmann ku.b at gmx.de
Thu Jul 24 13:25:07 PDT 2008


Am 23.07.08, 12:59 -0700 schrieb Hal V. Engel:
> On Thursday 24 July 2008 07:47:15 am Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:

> > I checked here and my XRRScreenResources has one output and one crtc.
> > The output has one crtc attached.
> > 2 monitors over twinview + Xinerama
> 
> I am not sure I understand this.  With the nvidia driver you can use xinerama 
> or twinview or twinview with xinerama hints (fakerama I guess).  I suspect you 

The later, yes.

> mean the last one.  By the way with twinview you can not access the individual 
> LUTs for your monitors at least using the XVidMode API and the only way I have 
> found to get access to the individual LUTs is to disable twinview and use a 

Graphic card LUTs are typical of too low resolution for 16-bit and HDR.
Even without such LUTs there is too much banding here for my taste.

> generic Xinerama setup .  This results in a system that can have both displays 
> fully calibrated and that will run OpenGL apps across both displays just like 
> twinview but that can not be used with any composit extentions (compitz or 
> KDE4.x composited desktop) since these will not run on an Xinerama system.

One GSoC project needs compiz. So I am fine with a twinview + xinerama 
setup in this regard.

kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
-- 
developing for colour management 
www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org



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