Better linux support
Better linux support, updated drivers, Fedora support (that means distributing an RPM)
Fix the issue where closing X for the first time means that the devices are no longer recognized by xrandr
Fix the slowness disparity between running it in linux and running it in windows
windows = no lag
linux = lag
Improve your linux drivers.
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Mikhail Kozorovitskiy commented
Just ran in to this, wow. Really regretting my $300 displaylink enabled dock now.
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Tony Power commented
How can this be set to completed? It's the end of the year 2020, and still not working properly on kernel 5.8, no support at all for kernel 5.9, and we are currently on kernel version 5.10.
Displaylink is really slow to keep up support for Linux. Will never buy Display link again. A cheaper white brand USB-C hub will to the job and it's compatible with Linux.
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Sebastian W commented
A touch smoother on Ubuntu would be nice
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Tset Noitamotua commented
+1
Debian
Deeepin#1 support for Lenovo Thinkpads and Thinkpad Docks
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
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Ben commented
Lulz. This will likely never get fixed. There are several ways it could be resolved, but it's never going to be a priority for Displaylink. It works well enough that people who have no idea what to expect from their computer, won't notice the incredible lag or the CPU being pegged 100% if anything on screen is updating. They won't notice they go from 10h battery life to 30 minutes and if they do, they'll never associate it with their USB dock :p.
It's deeply unfortunate, but no one is likely to solve this problem with any third party hacky tech. It will be solved when the industry finally says fuck it, and standardizes on a good native transport supporting a minimum of 2x4k@120hz with audio transport.
I still don't understand why TB3/USB-C3.1 haven't solved it.
I'm also a little pissed that all the manufacturers of docks state that they support TB3 over USB-C 3.1, but the reality is they only support usb3.1 and the TB3 is completely unused. I bought a whole pallet of laptops recently, on the premise that I'd be able to use TB3/USB-C to do everything over a single dock, but turns out there is nothing on the market other than DisplayLink junk.
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Chris Lord commented
"If the Linux graphics subsystem just notified of the areas of the screen which had changed, this would minimise the changes needed to be encoded by DisplayLink and remove the lag, making it comparable with Windows."
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XDamage/
+1 for Fedora / more recent Linux support. Even better if the necessary drivers could be merged upstream.
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D. Charles Pyle commented
The above driver you suggested for Fedora fails on Fedora 24. It installs but the scriptlets fail and the kernel module isn't built because of another failure. The best I can hope for is that I actually see the startup screen on the DisplayLink device, until I get to X, and then it goes black. That is on Fedora 24. I cannot even use the device on Ubuntu. I have to blacklist the driver on Ubuntu because the entire Xserver is abysmally slow when the device is hooked up. I also lose acceleration for the entire Xserver and it reverts to software rendering. I don't have time to wait a few seconds before each application launches on my main screen, or wait for things to happen when I have to do something and have a deadline. That is on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I have three monitors, two of which are Dell 2440L monitors (hooked up via HDMI to an ASUSTek Radeon HD5750 Formula graphics card running at 700 MHz with memory clock running at 1150 MHz), and the other (the one hooked up to the DisplayLink device) is a Viewsonic VX922. It works fine on Windows and Mac OS X but I have yet to see a Linux distribution on which this device works. The device itself is a Sabrent USB-DH88. I am waiting for a replacement device because this USB-DH88 device for some reason came in a UGA-2K-195 box. I get bad flickering and very, very slow responsiveness on all monitors in Ubuntu. I have yet to get it to work in Fedora or any other distribution.
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Jiri Machacek commented
Guys (those posting just in-constructive negative feedback), what about to replace complaining with something constructive and helpful to help to fix issues in the driver by posting your comments containing setup information, configuration etc? Hardware of the dongles is apparently working fine, just the driver needs tuning which requires time... So far the device is resting in my drawer, from time to time I try new driver and see some progress.
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Jiri Machacek commented
Hello,
I have updated to your Linux driver from May 16. My chip is DisplayLink DL-165. It worked wonderfully and very smoothly until I restarted Ubuntu (16.04). After that the performance decreased heavily, all screens were refreshing very slowly, mouse glitching. I think there is some step performed during installation which "turns something on" in the driver, which causes it to run much faster. Is it possible to enforce this "nice feature" somehow via system configuration on boot-up? I would even be happy if system booted a little bit longer if I could really use this external screen dongle. Right now I can use it but I need to re-install every time to make it work smoothly.
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Daniel commented
Another new user complaining on the quality of the driver for linux. Pixelation, sluggishness, changes in appearance ...
Ubuntu 14.04LTS here with latest drivers from webpage. -
m_f_ commented
What DisplayLink is doing with their seemingly existing Linux driver and/or support, is just a huge discrase for their company.
The OpenSource thing with evdi is just a bad joke. You are just hiding behind your encryption.
DisplayLink should really think about if they really want Linux Support or just seemingly doing so, so that the commnuity will do "YOUR" work, but that can only be done if "EVERYTHING" is Open Sourced.
So think about if you want to loose a lot of Linux community or you have to greatly improve your Linux support and driver development.
I just need to look at Windows driver reelases compared to linux driver releases... This shows everything.
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Andreas Balg commented
I'm very lucky already that the Linux driver exists at all, but aside from the X-Windows problems with xrandr and stuff especially together with some other proprietary drivers (also with Intel GPUs proprietary driver ) there are still grave problems that definitely prevent the use on a production system today (Delays at boot time, need to unplug/plug the adapter to be sure it is recognized, Kernel-Support for text-console or support at boot-time, ...) in order to use it on a production system.
In the end accessible source code and a public bug-tracker would definitely make sense if DisplayLink cares about native support and real usability in Linux - probably there is hardly any way around that. It could even take load from your internal developers - W'd be able to help for sure with quite some issues through experienced deleopers from the community
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Kopax Anderson commented
Is it too much to ask if you could write me a Debian 8 driver that can make me use of full HD ?
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cyan commented
I am really disappointed with the performance under linux. My mouse crawls miserably on the screen. My dell computer is under kubuntu 14.04.03, is there a hope that it works better for one day?
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G commented
Why don't you just integrate your drivers into the Linux kernel? Why force users to install separate packages, just to get your hardware to work? That's how things worked 20 years ago on Windows, but it's not how things are supposed to work in the modern world.