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Thanks David,

Actually I don't need to do color correction on this second monitor,
and it doesn't need to perfectly match the LCD.

What is strange for me though is that I can't get any red content out
of the Lacie when I plug it in the second slot, even though it is a
great monitor otherwise. I mean in this configuration with the Apple
manual calibration assistant, Lacie software, or Colorvision noting
will budge it. The gamma looks flat too. It has to have something to
do with the way these two slots work together on the board. 

Like I mentioned, I couldn't calibrate two CRTS on this G5 machine
either. But either monitor works just right in the first slot. 

So, either I am going to have to buy an inexpenisve LCD for my tools
or buy a new graphic card ( or both) or just work with one monitor
because the uglyness of the second screen is just to distracting for
me or my clients.

I just didn't know if anyone else had been down this road. I don't
know if later G5s had different graphic cards or not.

John

John

  
> On a Mac, a second card shouldn't be necessary, you should be able
to both 
> calibrate and profile two monitors. I'm working on a G5 with two
calibrates 
> monitors as I type this. But a CRT and an LCD is not really
practical anyways. Its 
> like yoking a donkey and a racehorse to the same cart; you're
wasting the 
> racehorse, even if you can get them to pull together. An older CRT
is going to 
> have to be run reall dim, and a newer LCD will have to be choked WAY
back to 
> match, and it won't be a great match even then...
> 
> So I don't know why you are suffering this problem, but a fix won't
really 
> get you an appropriate situation anyways...
> 
> C. David Tobie
> Product Technology Manager
> ColorVision Business Unit
> Datacolor Inc.
> CDTobie@...
> www.colorvision.com
>