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Will you be supporting Ubuntu 16.04 LTS? Got an ETA?
It would be great if you would add/post a deb or even better a ppa site.

Thanks,
Dennis

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Dennis Gesker shared this idea · 16 March, 2016 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

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AdminWim (Product Manager, DisplayLink) responded · 16 May, 2016

V1.1 of the Ubuntu driver is now available, which supports 16.04.

http://www.displaylink.com/downloads/ubuntu

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AdminWim (Product Manager, DisplayLink) responded · 27 April, 2016

This is the information in the DisplayLink forum about the current Linux status, posted last week:

I thought I owe you some news on what is happening to the Ubuntu driver here at DisplayLink.

Many of you noticed the recent activity in the open-source kernel module and library, evdi and libevdi, which are vital part of the Ubuntu driver. This is because the team have been busy working on some further Linux-related developments which we will be announcing soon – stay tuned.

However, the changes were significant enough that in order to be useful for Ubuntu as well, we do need to release a refreshed driver for the O/S that is compatible again.

With Ubuntu 16.04 being released today, we obviously aim for the release to support it, which means playing nice with kernel versions that it ships with. There are also other things that we fixed meanwhile, which were waiting for a release train – they should improve general compatibility and stability of the driver.

Although Ubuntu remains the distro we do most of our development and test against, to recognise all the effort the community has put into making the driver usable in other distributions, in the new release we will make it easier to install on something that’s not Ubuntu. Thank you for your involvement in making the installer script more flexible.

Finally, the schedule. There are still a few bugs that we would love to fix for this release, to make the overall experience better. This means that while we will be late to be ready for 16.04 launch date, we expect to have the driver available soon after – in coming weeks (I personally cross fingers for first half of May).

Thank you for your support and warm welcoming of the driver – and, as always – we appreciate all the feedback and encourage to help improve the open-source parts – the evdi project is always accepting pull requests.

Best regards,
Michal

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Dan commented · 21 December, 2016 00:32 · Flag as inappropriate

-DisplayLink 1.2.65 works for me on Ubuntu 16.04
-If upgrading from an older version of DisplayLink, make sure you run this FIRST:

"displaylink-installer.sh uninstall"

-In some older versions of DisplayLink, the above lives in /usr/lib/displaylink

-In DisplayLink 1.2.65, the above lives in /opt/displaylink

-After you run the above, run the "displaylink-driver-1.2.65.run" file as usual.

->The installation instructions need to be updated so that they address 16.04 as well as 14.04!!!
Will commented · 10 November, 2016 20:10 · Flag as inappropriate

Hey,
I'm still seeing

Error:

Job for displaylink.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status displaylink.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
Paninoboy commented · 23 October, 2016 23:01 · Flag as inappropriate

i would go one step further than Massimiliano and suggest that this software effort is complete garbage
Massimiliano Adamo commented · 20 October, 2016 09:43 · Flag as inappropriate

with Ubuntu Gnome (hence, Gnome Display Manager, aka GDM), there is still the same problem. I need to login with DisplayLink unplugged, then I can plug after login. Otherwise it won't work.
Furthermore, there are no man pages, you don't know where the files are, you don't know that there is a systemd script called 'dlm.service', you don''t know that there is an install/uninstall script because it has permissions 700 and normal users won't see it (normal user should see teh script and should be prompted to run as root), you're not providing a deb/rpm file, there is actually no repository for it and we need to check manually for updates.
Let's say, that there is much room for improvements...
Adam Weishaupt commented · 07 September, 2016 16:43 · Flag as inappropriate

Hi, i'm running Ubuntu 16.04 and i'm getting the same error like others:
"Job for displaylink.service failed because the control process exited with error code..."
I hope we get a fixed driver soon. I decided to take DisplayLink because of Ubuntu support!
Best
Adam
Raffael Lima commented · 02 September, 2016 20:33 · Flag as inappropriate

[Ubuntu 16.04] ]If you guys are having problem to start the "displaylink service", and already turned off the Secure Book, you can turn off the validation using the command:

sudo mokutil --disable-validation
Derrick Rose commented · 30 August, 2016 21:52 · Flag as inappropriate

I wrote a script to run on startup after I logged into ubuntu 16.04, this wil lsetup external monitors and or turn off the laptop screen. Everything is configured via ini file in ~/.config/dplink.ini

http://digitalexpl0it.com/index.php/blog/displaylink-dock-ubuntu
Gustavo Cunha commented · 26 August, 2016 15:19 · Flag as inappropriate

Hi,

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and I tried to install driver version 1.1.62.
I'm having the same problem mentioned by Jonathan.

Error:

Job for displaylink.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status displaylink.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
Jonathan commented · 05 July, 2016 12:17 · Flag as inappropriate

Hi,

I am using Xubuntu 16.04 LTS and have just downloaded the latest driver.
I have run 'sudo ./displaylink-driver-1.1.62.run' and I receive the following error:

Job for displaylink.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status displaylink.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

Can anyone help with this?
Joachim Nilsson (Troglobit) commented · 26 May, 2016 20:51 · Flag as inappropriate

There's still an awful lot of kernel crashes and warnings printed in dmesg ... these are printed apx 10 every second:

[ 413.069660] [drm:drm_wait_vblank [drm]] *ERROR* Unsupported type value 0x1b7, supported mask 0x7400003f
[ 413.069685] [drm:drm_wait_vblank [drm]] *ERROR* Unsupported type value 0x40001b7, supported mask 0x7400003f

I'm on a X1 Carbon G1 with a Lenovo ThinkPad USB 3.0 port replicator (0A33971) if that is any help.
anonymous commented · 16 May, 2016 23:48 · Flag as inappropriate

I suggest you update your download page text to reflect the support of 16.04.
Joachim Nilsson (Troglobit) commented · 13 May, 2016 16:31 · Flag as inappropriate

Thank you Kyle Amadio, the https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/displaylink-debian project, suddenly my new Lenovo USB 3.0 dock (0A33971) started working like a charm for me on Ubuntu 16.04!

So happy I can now dock my X1 Carbon (G1) :-)

Something must have updated the firmware as well, because now the built-in NIC no longer disconnects/connects? Oh well, hoping for an official update soon, the DisplayLinkManager is really EATING CPU clock cycles ...
AdminAlban Rampon (Windows Product Manager, DisplayLink) commented · 13 May, 2016 10:54 · Flag as inappropriate

The new release is under internal review and approval.
Andrew Evans commented · 11 May, 2016 16:33 · Flag as inappropriate

I found a github repo but the driver keeps crashing https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/displaylink-debian
Marcin Kaźmierczak commented · 09 May, 2016 23:00 · Flag as inappropriate

Michał what is the status? When we can expect new working release. P.S. Męczę się kurwa strasznie na jednym monitorze :)
anonymous commented · 09 May, 2016 18:04 · Flag as inappropriate

I'm hoping that this receives due attention soon. My ASUS MB-159B+ 15.6" USB3.0 monitor has become, and will be useless until Ubuntu 16.04 (kernel 4.4.0) is supported. Kinda an expensive paperweight. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is here, and here to stay. It needs to be embraced as the LTS replacement for 14.04.
anonymous commented · 09 May, 2016 14:47 · Flag as inappropriate

I have just bought displaylink adapter - waiting to new driver :)
Dennis Olsen commented · 06 May, 2016 20:16 · Flag as inappropriate

Thank you for the update and your continued development of the Linux driver in an open fashion. Eagerly awaiting the new 16.04 driver.
Robin commented · 06 May, 2016 16:09 · Flag as inappropriate

fantastic new. I'll buy 3 more the day you get it working with 16.04.
Jimmy commented · 29 April, 2016 11:22 · Flag as inappropriate

@DocWilco : How si you make it work with 16.04, which drivers are you using?

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