[Openicc] Minimal X Color Management

edmund ronald edmundronald at gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 13:54:04 PST 2012


On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com>wrote:

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> On Feb 20, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Chris Lilley wrote:
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> > My monitor (An Asus PA-246Q wide gamut 24" display) offers native, sRGB,
> > AdobeRGB and some other modes. The EDID seems to be the same regardless
> > of which mode is chosen.
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> On Feb 21, 2012, at 6:02 AM, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> > That's a bug. And writing the manufacturer to fix that would be IMO
> > appropriate.
>
> Are you sure it's considered a bug, and not a flawed "works as intended"
> design?
>
> EDID is a string of data. I'm unconvinced, off hand, that this string is
> dynamic. For resolution information, it doesn't present the currently set
> resolution but rather all supported resolutions.
>
> I know of no case where display firmware is updated by the manufacturer,
> so it would seem most likely once behavior is released to the public: bug
> or not, we maybe stuck with a lot of devices with said behavior.
>
>
You'd have to tell the system to re-read the EDID anyway, except if there
is some special driver installed, via standard hardware there is no signal
that I know off to indicate it has changed.

Edmund

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