display adjustment for laptop...

[halfofbob]

Hey everyone, I just bought a new laptop and I'm having trouble getting the color, contrast and brightness to the correct settings.

The laptop is a Mayhem G5 from ABS and has a Nvidia GeForce Go 6800 Ultra. The "unique" video card isn't supported by the Nvidia forceware download that nearly every other Nvidia card works with. Furthermore, the version of firmware with the card doesn't have a simple wizard to go through to set up the contrast/brightness and hues on color screens. I need to change the display through software of somesort, since there are no physical adjust knobs on the monitor itself.

Does anyone know of any software that you can adjust your laptop monitor's display (color, brightness, contrast) settings with? It's nearly impossible to guess at changing the colors without also looking at some kind of a template.

 

[GavinO]

Brightness should be adjustable via a hotkey. Contrast may not be an option; many LCDs assume they have perfect contrast when using the digital input (like a laptop LCD usually does). As for hue shifts, I think there is a utility that comes with various Adobe products to color calibrate the display. I'm not aware of anything free, however.

 

[halfofbob]

Thanks!

Thanks for the help gavino, I forgot about the Adobe Gamma utility in th Control Panel (if you have Adobe Photoshop installed). The thing works miracles... Thanks again!