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Force RGB Mode to Improve Ultra-wide Monitor Display Quality on Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11
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#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/ |
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#!/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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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?