Is anybody out there running this combination? I'm seeing very ugly colors after I turn the monitor on or after it is woken up. With a custom profile loaded the shift looks a bit like there is a plus green gel (e.g. like gelling a strobe to florescent) over the monitor -- except that the whites are still white. The profile that came with the monitor doesn't display this problem.
Here are the relevant facts (I think):
- PowerMac G5 (2 x 2.0 GHz) running 10.4.10
- ATI Radeon 9600 Pro video card with 64 MB of VRAM
- Monitor connected via DVI
- Profiled with a GMB Eye-One and Color Eyes Display Pro
- The profiling software sees the monitor as a "DDC LCD Monitor" with DDC enabled
The monitor profiles decently (especially for the price) and looks good until the first time it is power cycled. Then the problem shows up. This makes me think that the problem might be something like the video card / driver failing to reload adjustment settings to the monitor when it comes back up or else the monitor failing to tell the computer that it is back.
Another clue that the problem might be DDC related is that I can switch to the profile that came with the monitor, or one generated with Eye-One Match when I'm pretty sure that DDC was not enabled, and the colors return to something reasonable. But when I switch back to the profile generated with Color Eyes Display Pro the ugly colors come back if I do the switch in System Preferences. If I do the switch with Color Eyes Display Pro there is a short (1 or 2 seconds) delay where the colors are ugly, then they return to the right colors. It has the feel of the delay while profile data is being loaded into the monitor.
Since changing the profile with System Preferences doesn't have a delay and the colors are wrong, I wonder if it could be a driver issue, or an issue with the way that Samsung did their DDC implementation. The Color Eyes folks make a big deal of the amount of effort that they have put into making their code work with the various flavors of DDC that are out there.
If anybody has experience with these monitors and could tell me what was or wasn't working, I'd appreciate it.
I'd also love to hear from somebody who knows what goes on in the data flow between one of these monitors and the video card and driver.
Thanks, Doug
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