spyder 3 color calibration with 17.10

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With Ubuntu 17.10 (artful aardvark):

when trying to calibrate my monitor with my datacolor spyder 3 calibration tool using the settings - devices - color manager, after I am told to hang the instrument on the screen and start calibrating I get something like

an internal error occurred that could not be recovered - remove calibration device

does anbybody know what to do here? Thanks. minyves

EDIT:

Found it! It worked after

apt-get install colord-sensor-argyll

It would be better if you answer your question. – N0rbert Dec 11 '17 at 10:17 — N0rbert, Dec 11 '17 at 10:17

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 11 '17 at 10:20

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It worked in Ubuntu 17.10 after running this command:

sudo apt install colord-sensor-argyll

answered Dec 11 '17 at 10:20

karel

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And with 18.04 it's the same... – minyves May 11 '18 at 20:59

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 13 '17 at 08:09

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Try using DisplayCAL/dispcalGUI. It should install necessary components and the interface is pretty much straight forward. Side note: it takes a while to calibrate, so best make a cup of tea/coffee and turn off monitor saving for the calibration process.

To install dispcalGUI in all currently supported versions of Ubuntu open the terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install dispcalgui colord # colord is an optional package

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answered Dec 13 '17 at 08:01

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dispcalGUI finishes calibrating and asks if the generated profile should be installed. I say yes and get a message that profile icc-123456-very-long-number can't be found. I too can't find a profile with that name anywhere on my disk. The gnome-color-thing from gnome-settings works perfectly, though. – minyves May 14 '18 at 07:15
Worked in Ubuntu 18.4.3 with Spyder 5. For orientation, try this link https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Monitor_profilieren_mit_ArgyllCMS/ – somethis Oct 31 '19 at 22:41
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Just to clarify, dispcalgui is a graphical interface for Argyll. It is not available for systems after Bionic. I don't know why. https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/graphics/dispcalgui – Levente Dec 28 '20 at 17:49
For some time now (at least with 22.04) dispcalgui is gone from the official repo. It can be installed as the displaycal flatpak as mentioned here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1338986/problem-installing-displaycalgui – minyves Jul 10 '22 at 19:03

spyder 3 color calibration with 17.10

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