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+Note for users of the ColorVision Spyder2:
+------------------------------------------
+
+The Spyder2 device doesn't work "out of the box" because it needs
+firmware to be loaded into it.  That firmware is proprietary and
+cannot be distributed within Debian, but Argyll provides a tool to
+extract that firmware from the driver CD provided with the device.
+
+If you're only using your Spyder2 on one computer, then all you need
+to do is run the "spyd2en -S l" utility (as root) while the driver CD
+is mounted.  spyd2en looks for the CD in a few typical mount points
+(/media/ColorVision, /mnt/cdrom, /media/cdrom, /cdrom).  If your CD is
+mounted somewhere else, just add the location of the "setup.exe" file,
+for instance "spyd2en -S l /mnt/tmp/setup/setup.exe".  In both cases,
+the firmware will be extracted and stored into
+/usr/share/color/spyd2PLD.bin, where the other utilities will be able
+to look for it when needed.  You're done!
+
+If you use the Spyder2 on several computers, and don't want to carry
+the CD and perform the same operation on all, you might like to
+generate a Debian package containing the firmware on one computer, and
+install that package on the others.  A source package is provided in
+/usr/share/doc/argyll/examples/spyder2.tar.gz.  Here's the procedure
+for the first computer:
+
+- first, extract the firmware with spyd2en (as above);
+- then, apt-get install debhelper fakeroot build-essential;
+- uncompress the spyder2.tar.gz archive somewhere;
+  you'll get a argyll-firmware-spyder2 directory;
+- in that directory, run "fakeroot debian/rules binary clean";
+- you should get a .deb in the parent directory.
+
+You can then copy that .deb file to other computers and install it
+with "dpkg -i argyll-firmware-spyder2_1.1_all.deb".  You're done!
+
+ -- Roland Mas <lolando@debian.org>, Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:44:23 +0200