Digital BW, The Print

The history: When used with a single-monitor Dell-generic card, the 
Artisan GDM-C520 installed and calibrated as expected. Like many I 
bought a dual-VGA card so I could use CS2 on 2 screens. The first 
was the Matrox 440. No problems installing and setting up dual mode 
with XP. Then went through purgatory trying to calibrate. The 520 
was the primary monitor and the equence went like this: Cal. starts 
and before the power resets I get "An error occurred while setting 
the gamma ramp on the graphics card...." Sometimes I could just 
restart the exe or cold boot and gett past that error. Then after 6-
7 minutes (6 slices on the time pie) while working with black and 
grey, up pops "An error occurred during calibration. Please allow 
the display to warm up completely. The room should be dim..."  The 
room was very dark and the monitor on for several hours. Cannot 
switch 520 to #2 monitor because the cal. program only runs on mon. 
#1. Uninstalled 520, Artisan software, and all the sensor drivers; 
reinstalled but still no joy. After a lot of Googling and had a few 
hits with same problem but inconclusive or no advice. I posted on 
digitalblackandwhitetheprint on Yahoo and was told the Matrox is 
junk and go with an inexpensive nVidia. I bought and installed a PNY 
verto geForce 5200 with 256mb. All went well, but the cal. throws 
the same errors exactly the same even after completely reinstalling. 
Tried using 520 as only monitor, but same errors. My wife has put me 
on suicide watch. I just want to get on with my photography life and 
learning. TIA for any Help and/or Insight!

Try this site: <http://www.lumita.com/labs/artisan/>
There is a patch fix developed and kindly posted by one of the
original engineers of the Artisan calibration software.
Hope this helps,
Martin Paul

I assume this is Windows... under Windows, the only dual cards which are 
guaranteed to be seen as two displays by Windows (thus two profiles allowed) and 
offer two sets of calibration LUTs (so that both displays can be correctly 
calibrated) are PCI Express cards. That does not guarantee success with your 
Artisan software, all I can say is that it works nicely to calibrate and profile 
two displays under Windows using Spyder products...

C. David Tobie
WW Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
Datacolor
CDTobie@...
www.datacolor.com/Spyder3


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--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Martin Paul 
<martin@...> wrote:
>
> Try this site: <http://www.lumita.com/labs/artisan/>
> There is a patch fix developed and kindly posted by one of the
> original engineers of the Artisan calibration software.
> Hope this helps,
> Martin Paul
>
Thanks Paul and David for the suggestions. I believe from registry 
values that I am using the 1.0.0.0 drivers. Sony no longer has their 
Artisan site and has no drivers downloads for the GDM-C520. Does 
anyone know where I can get the latest drivers or at least the 1.2.5?? 
The Lumita patch is for the 1.2.5 version and choked on my system 
before calibration even started. BTW I have gone back to my original 
Dell single VGA board, but still get the error re: "warmed up...low 
light". Thanks for your help.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Martin Paul 
<martin@...> wrote:
>
> Try this site: <http://www.lumita.com/labs/artisan/>
> There is a patch fix developed and kindly posted by one of the
> original engineers of the Artisan calibration software.
> Hope this helps,
> Martin Paul
>
I located someone who has the 1.25 drivers for Windows, but we may 
have a problem transferring the files. Does anyone know of a source? 
After I update I will try the Lumita patch if I still have problems.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, CDTobie@... 
wrote:
>
> I assume this is Windows... under Windows, the only dual cards 
which are 
> guaranteed to be seen as two displays by Windows (thus two 
profiles allowed) and 
> offer two sets of calibration LUTs (so that both displays can be 
correctly 
> calibrated) are PCI Express cards. That does not guarantee success 
with your 
> Artisan software, all I can say is that it works nicely to 
calibrate and profile 
> two displays under Windows using Spyder products...
> 
> C. David Tobie
> WW Product Technology Manager
> Digital Imaging & Home Theater
> Datacolor
> CDTobie@...
> www.datacolor.com/Spyder3
> 
> 
> **************
> Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all 
> time on AOL Music.
>      
> (http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?
NCID=aolcmp00300000002548)
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
What would you think of using the PCI dual-VGA card with only the 
Artisan, and using the original AGP 4x card with my other monitor? 
TIA.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "rudytorrico" 
<rudytor@...> wrote:
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, CDTobie@ 
> wrote:
> >
> > I assume this is Windows... under Windows, the only dual cards 
> which are 
> > guaranteed to be seen as two displays by Windows (thus two 
> profiles allowed) and 
> > offer two sets of calibration LUTs (so that both displays can be 
> correctly 
> > calibrated) are PCI Express cards. That does not guarantee 
success 
> with your 
> > Artisan software, all I can say is that it works nicely to 
> calibrate and profile 
> > two displays under Windows using Spyder products...
> > 
> > C. David Tobie
> > WW Product Technology Manager
> > Digital Imaging & Home Theater
> > Datacolor
> > CDTobie@
> > www.datacolor.com/Spyder3
> > 
> > 
> > **************
> > Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all 
> > time on AOL Music.
> >      
> > (http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?
> NCID=aolcmp00300000002548)
> > 
> > 
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> What would you think of using the PCI dual-VGA card with only the 
> Artisan, and using the original AGP 4x card with my other monitor? 
> TIA.
>
Using the GeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro (AGP 4x) that came with the Dell 
Dimension 8200 and the Artisan 1.25 drivers I got from someone on 
the largeformatphotography forum, I finally, finally had the Art. 
calibrated. I did it with the RGP Print D65, but will change to 
Photo D65 based on some threads I have seen. I did a Win restore 
point and installed the PNY GeForce FX-5200 (PCI). I used the Win 
display settings to add the Dell LCD as the 2nd monitor. Checked the 
calibration and all was well. From my experience it does not seem 
possible to use a dual-monitor card. Since the cards I need are 
pretty cheap I would recommend the 2-card solution, but hte SONY has 
to be the primary display. Thanks for all the assistance.