EIZO Monitor and Color Navigator 7 software in Linux

[boredphoto (Fabio)]

I have an “old” but still excellent EIZO CG247 monitor that has a built-in calibration probe.
Since I use Linux, I obviously can’t calibrate it anymore, so every now and then I connect it to my Mac or Windows laptop, calibrate it, copy the profiles to X11, and that’s the end of the story.

I wrote to EIZO to ask if there was a way to calibrate the monitor, and they promptly replied:

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Regarding versions of CN7 for Linux, our Research and Development team in Japan have developed a version of CN7 which is compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (current versions 8 and 9). However, we can’t ensure total compatibility because of how individual everyone’s setup of Linux will naturally be.

You’re welcome to try and install the RHEL version and have a little tinker around. Here is a secure file transfer link for you:

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We can’t make any guarantees, but we have had customers who’ve been able to get it to work for them with their OS.
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I downloaded the tar.gz file from the link provided, which I removed from this post because it was unique.

My idea was to launch it inside a distrobox, but I keep getting errors. I tried to do some troubleshooting by searching online and with the help of cough cough an AI cough cough, but I gave up because there are some things that are beyond my expertise.

I was wondering if there is anyone in this forum who has an EIZO monitor and uses Color Navigator 7 to calibrate it, and who is also a RedHat and distrobox/podman black belt and would be willing to help me install it.

Thanks.

[epeeist (Colin Walls)]

I have an Eizo monitor, but run opens Use.

I am away at the moment, but will write to Eizo when I get home.

[TonyBarrett]

There’s a whole bunch of stuff on the web about efforts to do this as I bought a secondhand CX271 and investigated. However, from what I read, there are many difficulties in getting it running.

FWIW, I decided that was beyond me. I calibrated the monitor using a Windows partition and a Color Munki Display and copied the profile across to Linux. Then I let the built-in probe update the display every so often. My display doesn’t do a calibration from scratch. You have to use an external device but it has a probe that adjusts the calibration sporadically.

[leonidas111]

I use a Eizo CG2700S. This is what the Germany support told me:

Die eigentliche Kalibrierung findet ja in der Hardware des Bildschirms statt - das rudimentäre Matrix-Farbprofil beschreibt dann Softwaren, welche Colormanagement beherrschen, welcher Farbraum usw. auf dem Bildschirm gerade dargestellt wird.

Basicaly: choose a color profile, calibrate in Windows, copy *.icc profile in Linux and keep the same color profile like in Windows calibration.

[TonyBarrett]

It’s also been discussed previously here:

Copy icc monitor profile from Windows to Linux

Hello calibration experts, Is there a risk involved in coping icc monitor profile from Window to Linux when it comes to correct color management? Background: I have a wide gamut EIZO CG279X monitor. I process images using GIMP and Darktable using Linux Debian 12.1. My monitor is calibrated and GNOME and applications are color managed using the monitor icc profile. I use NVIDIA drivers for Quadro RTX4000 GPU. GPU and Monitor are connected using Display Port cable. The monitor can execute sel…

and here:

RIP DisplayCAL ?

Eizo is free but it will work only with Eizo monitors. For Eizo better to have X-Rite Display Pro than Spyder since Eizo color accuracy is better than Spyder’s accuracy. Ask for Eizo representative in your country to provide you the link to CN7. RH is only supported by Eizo but… For CN6 I just looked at the instalation scripts and mimic what they did. Some libs here, there. Nothing special. However better to just have CentOS 7 in VM for that. You got one problem less.