[Openicc] VMs and display correcotions

[Richard Hughes]

On 10 March 2011 09:38, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
> I am running Mac OS X 10.6.6 with two displays that the system has produced EDID based profiles for. However, VirtualBox 4.04 I don't think is passing this onto Fedora 14. Gnome Color Manager reports the one display (since the VM software is set for only two virtual displays) as Unknown Monitor and "Per-device settings not support. Check your display driver."

That sounds like VirtualBox is not emulating a device with an XRandR
1.3 capability. You probably want to file a bug with VirtualBox about
that, especially if it's allowing you to have more than one virtual
monitor.

> ioreg -l w 0 | grep "EDID"
> gets me two strings of encoded data about the two displays attached.

If you try using the xrandr command, you'll see the output devices as
detected by X in Fedora 14.

Richard.