Support linux on ALL your devices
I just purchased a displaylink USB 3 based device; reading the forums I didn't pickup the difference between USB 2.0 being supported and USB 3.0 not being supported. This is nonsense. Content protection on the monitor, I don't care about being able to use protected content; I'd like to just be able to use the monitor I paid for. But no.
I think you should support Linux with USB 3.0 devices to use non-DRM content.
Ubuntu is now supported by DisplayLink and can be downloaded from here:
http://www.displaylink.com/downloads/ubuntu
The Ubuntu driver is designed with open source components and packaging which enables it to be ported and distributed for other linux distros. DisplayLink does not intend to officially support more than Ubuntu. For more information, see our article here:
http://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/679060
If you have further suggestions about Linux support, please raise separate specific feature requests.
If you have any problems or need support, please use the Linux forum here:
http://www.displaylink.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=29
Please DO NOT use the comments thread to report problems. We have no way of following up on problem reports here. Use the forum instead.
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XoXiDe 101 commented
How about qpkg got qnap
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Christopher Parker commented
I am usually one of those developers who researches, finds, and builds crazy solutions to these types of problems but never posts. Well this one is just too good to keep to myself...
The Solution: DISPLAYLINK-DEBIAN by AdnanHodzic
https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/displaylink-debian
The DisplayLink driver installer for Debian and Ubuntu based Linux distributions: Debian, Ubuntu, Elementary OS, Mint, Kali, Deepin and many more! Full list of all supported platformsDisplayLink releases its drivers only for Ubuntu xx.04 LTS. Hence if you run any other Ubuntu version or any other Linux distribution DisplayLink will not work as expected.
displaylink-debian allows seamless installation of the official DisplayLink drivers tailored to work for most of the Debian based Linux distributions regardless of which Linux kernel version (>4.15) you're using.
I am using this myself to support running 2 additional monitors ontop of my original 2(internal and onboard minidisplay port). Keep in mind this is a 2011, imac running
Debian 5.18.16-1kali1... I call it my "KaliMac". And it works great!JUST MAKE SURE TO READ THE INSTRUCTIONS INCLUDING THE POST INSTALL DIRECTIONS.
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Jay commented
you guys should make the drivers opensource. that way you will have less overhead everytime you want to update driver to supper new linux kernel.
Seeing that will be far away could you guys please add support for linux kernel 5.xx
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arun soman commented
Hi, I have a centos 8 also I have Display link usb3.0 plung and play display adapter. But I could not find any driver for centos 8. The same device is working fine with ubuntu 18.04 but I need to use cetos 8, Do you have any driver for that ..
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Wietse de Jong commented
For opensuse (tumbleweed) this link works (for me)
https://software.opensuse.org/package/displaylink?search_term=DisplayLink -
Tset Noitamotua commented
Is this the related open source project: https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi ?
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Dimitri commented
Hi, I have bought this screen for working on Debian. I have not used it since all non official drivers I have tested are not working.
I would love to get a new version if you support debian.
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Anonymous commented
ugh, still not open source really.
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Dismas Sayre commented
Anyone manage to get this working on Linux Mint?
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Vitex Software commented
Compiled fresh Github source work for me on debian
https://twitter.com/Vitexus/status/957924343308279809Thank you!
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Anonymous commented
followed jabodk's comment and it works perfect. Everything !
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jabodk commented
Just finished a fresh install of Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 on a Dell 15 xps9560
Disabled Nouveau during boot from installation media to be able to start and complete the installation.
- Edited the boot line and added the following parameter: modprobe.blacklist=nouveauDisabled Nouveau on the first boot of the installed system, as described above.
Once logged in, uninstalled the Nouveau package and edited /etc/default/grub
- sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (The system will use Intel GPU on subsequent boots until Bumblebee installation)
- Added the following text to GRUB_CMD_LINUX_DEFAULT: "quiet splash acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=\"Windows 2009\""Installed Bumblebee
- sudo apt-get install bumblebee-nvidiaInstalled the latest Displaylink driver for Ubuntu
- downloaded from http://www.displaylink.com/downloads/ubuntu.phpInstalled the DKMS framework
- sudo apt-get install dkmsXorg configuration
- Created a 20-intel.conf file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ (if the xorg.conf.d is missing, just create it)
- Added the following lines to the 20-intel.conf file:Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "Intel"
Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
Option "TearFree" "false"
Option "TripleBuffer" "true"
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
Option "Tiling" "true"
Option "Pageflip" "true"
Option "ExaNoComposite" "false"
Option "Tiling" "true"
Option "Pageflip" "true"
EndSection- Save the file and reboot
And now i got 3 external monitors working on Dell D3100 Docking Station
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adam commented
lenovo 700 / ubuntu 16lts
I'm lucky that it's a company pc - otherwise I would be pretty mad that I wasted money on a fancy usb hub.
When graphic ports (sometimes, but very rarely and in an undeterministic manner) work the graphics is horrbible with tons of artifacts showing at random. Even the jack port doesn't work.The drivers are a waste of time and linux support is false marketing!
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Frank commented
I can't get this to work properly with a Dell D3100 docking station and 2 extra screens on linux mint.
One screen goes haywire and there are many graphical glitches.
Can you please improve this driver for Linux?
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Louis Grasset commented
What about openSUSE drivers ? Guys please be fair : dev some drivers for all main dist... : Cent, openSUSE, Fedora and Mint...
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Christopher Carr commented
Time for Wayland support. Mir is dead, and Ubuntu is moving to GNOME/Wayland.
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D. Charles Pyle commented
Fedora 25 now detects and automatically configures the DisplayLink device on my computer at boot time. Right on the LiveDVD it will light up the monitor and then you will have to use the Displays control panel once you logon to arrange your monitors. I was pleasantly surprised because I have not been able to use this device on any Linux computer without severe problems with stability and an annoying, flickering mouse cursor.
At any rate, you then will have to copy your working monitors.xml to /etc/skel/.configure and also to /var/lib/gdm/.config/ in order to ensure consistency across the system because Xorg and Wayland still don't know how to arrange multiple monitors' ports correctly. Every time I end up with screen 3 as primary, with the DisplayLink device being set up as screen 2 (off to the right of screen 1) and the other identical monitor to the right of screen 3 as screen 1. They are always scrambled until I manually set the arrangement and save the configuration.
Unfortuately, if you enable acceleration options or TearFree on a Radeon card, it will then render the DisplayLink device inoperable again until you remove the xorg.conf file that configures those options for the Radeon card. Tried several configurations and nothing has so far worked. So, I just went back to the default auto-configuration. I don't do a whole lot on the Linux side these days any more so I guess I will worry about acceleration later.
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Anonymous commented
!!!!!WARNING!!!!!
DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THESE PRODUCTS IF YOU HAVE TO USE PROPRIETARY DRIVERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I currently have VERY expensive USB hubs after buying 4 of the D3100 boxes for our new DELL XPS 15 laptops w/ 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD and Nvidia GTX 1050 dedicated cards.
Using the opensource drivers causes lag, tearing and artifacts. Using the proprietary drivers means the D3100 is basically a USB hub with blank displays.
Thank goodness I insisted on purchasing these USB hubs for testing by us before ordering for the whole company and our clients. Am currently testing other solutions and am sure we will have viable options before a working version of this hardware is available.
Charles Williams
IT Infrastructure & Architect Manager
Madsack Online GmbH & Co. KG