Can I just say that after watching "Obsessive Compulsive Hoarder" on Ch4 I am disgusted with the Councillor who didn't visit, the “Mental Health Expert” who walked away and reported Richard Wallace for fire safety, the Vicar who sat on the fence and the neighbours who first extended the long arm of the law rather than the hand of community.

However I am touched by the humanity of one Landscape Gardener who looked at the ill and damaged man rather than eyesore in the garden and hence made more progress than anyone else in over 30 years of one man's suffering. Bravo to that man and everyone he managed to turn around to provide positive help at the end.

Installing a Color Profile for a Lenovo Thinkpad W510 in Ubuntu Linux

Download the monitor drivers exe file from Lenovo's Support Site

Ok won't unpack as an exe archive or cabextract...bah ok install wine and unpack it in that.

wine 79oi26ww.exe

Open the self extracting installer in wine and capture the files it writes out to Drivers/Win/Monitors within the .wine directory.

Bah first problem........get-edid is thowing a fit so I don't know what panel I have

Let's see what options are there for my resolution

grep -i 1920x1080 TPLCD.INF

Ok only 2 options LEN40B2 and LEN40B3 now I know I have the 95% Gamut display and one is listed in the ini as

_{%TPWFHD% = TPLCDWFHDG95.Install, Monitor\LEN40B2 ; 15.6" Wide FHD 16:9 LED B/L 1920x1080 Gamut95}

Right so that's me then :)

Sooo lets look around in the same ini file and see what colour profile that really maps to shall we ?

grep -A 2 \\[TPLCDWFHDG95.Install] TPLCD.INF

_{[TPLCDWFHDG95.Install] ; Wide FHD 16:9 1920x1080 Gamut95}

_{DelReg=DEL_CURRENT_REG}

_{AddReg=HD1920, DPMS, ICMG95}

Almost there, so it maps to the ICMG95 profile which in turn

grep -A 1 \\[ICMG95] TPLCD.INF

_[ICMG95]

_{HKR,,ICMProfile,0,"TPLCD95.icm"}

So there we go...that's the file I need to load into gnome-color-manager, Who said Linux wasn't easy huh ?

(update, this is now broken in Ubuntu 11.10 as you cannot load a Colour profile for an "unknown" display so now I really do need to fix edid)