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Force RGB Mode to Improve Ultra-wide Monitor Display Quality on Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11
#Force RGB Mode to Improve Ultra-wide Monitor Display Quality on Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11
These instructions will create an override profile for ultra-wide monitors
that do not display crisp images and text on systems running OS X El Capitan 10.11.
1.) Download this Gist as .zip file and extract the files directly to your Desktop.
2.) Type "sudo ruby ~/Desktop/patch-edid.rb", press return.
3.) Type "sudo mv ~/DisplayVendorID-5e3 /System/Library/Displays/Contents/Resources/Overrides", press return.
4.) Restart your Mac.
If you do not see change, open Displays in System Preferences and select the
new "-forced RGB mode (EDID override)" display profile under the Color tab; restart your Mac one more time.
Credit:
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=clessg
https://github.com/mauricerkelly
http://www.ireckon.net/2013/03/force-rgb-mode-in-mac-os-x-to-fix-the-picture-quality-of-an-external-monitor/
#!/usr/bin/ruby
# Create display override file to force Mac OS X to use RGB mode for Display
# see http://embdev.net/topic/284710
require 'base64'
data=`ioreg -l -d0 -w 0 -r -c AppleDisplay`
edids=data.scan(/IODisplayEDID.*?<([a-z0-9]+)>/i).flatten
vendorids=data.scan(/DisplayVendorID.*?([0-9]+)/i).flatten
productids=data.scan(/DisplayProductID.*?([0-9]+)/i).flatten
displays = []
edids.each_with_index do |edid, i|
disp = { "edid_hex"=>edid, "vendorid"=>vendorids[i].to_i, "productid"=>productids[i].to_i }
displays.push(disp)
end
# Process all displays
if displays.length > 1
puts "Found %d displays! You should only install the override file for the one which" % displays.length
puts "is giving you problems.","\n"
end
displays.each do |disp|
# Retrieve monitor model from EDID data
monitor_name=[disp["edid_hex"].match(/000000fc00(.*?)0a/){|m|m[1]}.to_s].pack("H*")
if monitor_name.empty?
monitor_name = "Display"
end
puts "found display '#{monitor_name}': vendorid #{disp["vendorid"]}, productid #{disp["productid"]}, EDID:\n#{disp["edid_hex"]}"
bytes=disp["edid_hex"].scan(/../).map{|x|Integer("0x#{x}")}.flatten
puts "Setting color support to RGB 4:4:4 only"
bytes[24] &= ~(0b11000)
puts "Number of extension blocks: #{bytes[126]}"
puts "removing extension block"
bytes = bytes[0..127]
bytes[126] = 0
bytes[127] = (0x100-(bytes[0..126].reduce(:+) % 256)) % 256
puts
puts "Recalculated checksum: 0x%x" % bytes[127]
puts "new EDID:\n#{bytes.map{|b|"%02X"%b}.join}"
Dir.mkdir("DisplayVendorID-%x" % disp["vendorid"]) rescue nil
f = File.open("DisplayVendorID-%x/DisplayProductID-%x" % [disp["vendorid"], disp["productid"]], 'w')
f.write '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">'
f.write "
<dict>
<key>DisplayProductName</key>
<string>#{monitor_name} - forced RGB mode (EDID override)</string>
<key>IODisplayEDID</key>
<data>#{Base64.encode64(bytes.pack('C*'))}</data>
<key>DisplayVendorID</key>
<integer>#{disp["vendorid"]}</integer>
<key>DisplayProductID</key>
<integer>#{disp["productid"]}</integer>
</dict>
</plist>"
f.close
puts "\n"
end # displays.each
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bugs2 commented Oct 6, 2015

hello,I get
“mv: rename /Users/mcckoy/DisplayVendorID-4c23 to /System/Library/Displays/Contents/Resources/Overrides/DisplayVendorID-4c23: Operation not permitted”
and “Operation not permitted” at root(sh-3.2#).
How can i fixes it?

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