Fix the washed out, blue tinted monitor on your AAO.

I have been unimpressed with the picture quality on my Aspire One, and after some searching I have found a solution for the washed out, blue tinted image.

First we will need an AAO icc profile. Download the profiles, and then unzip them. Open a terminal and go to the directory where you unzipped the icc profiles. Create the folder '/usr/share/color/icc', and copy the color profiles there.

Code:

sudo mkdir /usr/share/color
sudo mkdir /usr/share/color/icc
sudo cp AspireOneProfile* /usr/share/color/icc 

Now that we have our icc profile for our Aspire One, we need to load them somehow. For this we will install a program called xcalib.

Code:

sudo apt-get install xcalib

After that is done we can test the profiles we downloaded. Open a terminal and type in:

Code:

xcalib /usr/share/color/icc/AspireOneProfileNative

You should immediately see a huge improvement in contrast and colour on your Aspire One. To switch back to normal type in

Code:

xcalib -clear

I prefer the AspireOneProfileNative setting. To make this happen automatically at every login, I simply added my xcalib command to my gnome session.

Enjoy your improved picture!

BONUS FIREFOX TIP:

To enable colour profiles in Firefox 3, follow this link.

Credits!!
I got all my info from:

ICC profiles for AAO
Load ICC profiles in Linux

 

hey --

That's pretty interesting.
Half the time, I think I'm basically colourblind, but even I think the AspireOneProfileNative profile looks pretty nice.

I don't really understand why you would use the AspireOneProfile, on the other hand - unless you are going for a sepia-toned, old movie feel.

 

It gives you an accurate color range, good for photo editing. They only look yellow when you switch from the amazingly blue tinted default of the AAO. I can't even look at the default anymore

 

The linked files are gone

 

Fixed. Try again.