color calibrate on two VDU's after lion upgrade

Hi there,

Is there any news on this?

Maybe a workaround that really works? The mirror screen etc trick does not work for me.

I have 2 identical displays (samsung syncmaster BX 2440) and I cannot choose an induvidual profile per screen which drives me crazy.

thanks for leting me know if there is news.

regards

Andre

You've got to be joking. 3 updates now and this issue hasn't even been addressed.

I'm now going to have to go out and buy a different display so I can run a CALIBRATED dual screen setup. Thanks Apple, I'll be sure to send you the bill for the new display, but don't worry, it certainly wont be an Apple Display.

Well done halfwits.

I'm using 2 simular screens as well and have same issues. Unfortunately the update did nt solve it.

Maybe it is down to how Lion recognises the screens.

In the preferences they are called the same. In my case "SMBX2440" on both screens

Is there a way to rename 1 display so that the MAC thinks there are 2 different screens attached to the display card?

regards

For your informtion.

I have just upgraded from SL to Lion and I got the 10.7.3 installer when I bought Lion last weekend. Big mistake as the world and its brother were downloading Lion updates so took forever, but thats another story.

Anyway having installed Lion and done all the housekeeping bits and migrating across to iCloud. I then decided to fire up my Eizo CG223W second monitor. When I noticed that the colours were a bit off so checking I found that on both the MBP screen and the Eizo it had defaulted to the generic profile. So I just selected the correct one for each and so far that is how they remained?

So thankfully I don't seem to be suffering the same sort of problems as you guys and I count myself very lucky!

But it looks like you can run with two monitors using different profiles under Lion, but whats causing it to foul up on your systems?

I do hope you get it sorted soon.

Hi everybody,

Same problem here on my mac pro and two BX2440s - and the workaround is not working for me either.

Has anyone gotten a reply from Apple on this as to if they're at least working on the problem?

Thx! 🙂

10.7.3 and the bug is still there. I have sent Apple feedback twice, in 10.7 and in 10.7.1. Three versions later and still no fix. The workaround works for me but its annoying. Dual VDU's still not working with separate color profiles in Lion.

menick wrote:

10.7.3 and the bug is still there. I have sent Apple feedback twice, in 10.7 and in 10.7.1. Three versions later and still no fix. The workaround works for me but its annoying. Dual VDU's still not working with separate color profiles in Lion.

Glad the work around does work for you, but is annoying to have to apply it after every restart/logout...

Maybe we should start a new discussion specific to this particular problem?

The original post seemed to suggest that the problem was with a corrupt color profile; the problem most of us are experiencing is the inability for OSX Lion to properly distinguish from two identical displays/monitors.

Bruno

Seriously Apple. This is a major issue. 10.7.3 and still no fix. We should't have to come up with patches for your software. I'm running dual Samsung 244T and since running Lion have been unable to select individual color profiles for each monitor. Please look into it for us.

I just thought I'd let everyone know that I fixed this issue. Unfortunately, no thanks to apple I had to go out and buy a new monitor to replace one of the duplicates so that I could use my workstation for what its designed to do.

Thanks apple for the help with this issue. Wait, what help? The invoice for the new monitor is in the mail.

It is indeed pretty anoying that Apple does not reply at all. There is absolutely NO sign that they are taking care of their customers.

For sure I'm not going to invest in a new display. I just want Apple to solve the problem.

I hope that 10.8 will fix it.

Apple please wake up !!!

Hi,

I also wrestled with this problem for a long time now but I think I found a solution.

I'm using:

- MAC pro 2x2.4 Hgz quad core intel xeon

- Software is 10.7.5

- X-rite I-display pro screen calibrator

- 2 x 24inch screen Samsung Syncmaster BX 2440 connected via DVI connection. Exactly the same screens

So what have I done:

Step 1

- Shut down MAC

- Connect only screen #1 to output 1

- Calibrate that screen with X-rite and save profile under something like screen-1

- DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING under screen preference like colors etc

- Close all prg's and shut down computer

Step 2

- Disconnect screen 1 - or switch off so MAC only sees 1 screen

- Connect screen #2

- Calibrate that screen with X-rite and save profile under something like screen-2

- DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING under screen preference like colors etc

- Close all prg's and agin shut down computer

Step 3

- Now Connect both screens to the cables or connection on which you did the calibration. so no swapping.

- Start up your MAC

- Your colors now should look exactly the same on both screens.

- Done and DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING under screen preference like colors etc.

On my siutation the result was excellent. I always had problems with inconsistant colors between the screens. Left screen was always greenish and teh right screen always reddish instead of grey.

If this procedure is OK for other situations I really do not know but I thought I let you all know and maybe help.

regards

Andre (from Holland :-)

Wow... must have taken a long time to figure that one out 🙂

Will try this with DispCal and my Spyder Sensor as soon as i can find the time, thanks!

Still I think it's really annoying and embarassing that Apple seems to be ignoring this! C'mon, probably only a small tweak is needed to fix this...

Same issue here.

Hello,

Same issue here. I'm not able to select a color profile independantly on each screen. It really seems dual screen support is screwed somehow.

xav