Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

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 · Mar 16, 2016 · Report… · Admin →

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Wim responded · May 16, 2016

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

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

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Wim responded · Apr 27, 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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Robin commented · May 6, 2016 4:09 PM · Report

fantastic new. I'll buy 3 more the day you get it working with 16.04.

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Jimmy commented · April 29, 2016 11:22 AM · Report

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

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Bernd Hentig commented · April 29, 2016 9:58 AM · Report

Great news that. Could you please put some effort in testing the ASUS "docking" stations or make ASUS recognize the need that their hardware should be compatible with Linux. They have not been very helpful in the past with this, it seems the guys in Taiwan have been put under pressure not to support anything except W10.
Next, if you could test with openSuse Linux (which is still widely used in parts of Europe), that would be very helpful. Now that openSuse is based on SLED/SLES, compatibility with 42.1 would ensure it will run with SLES 12 as well, which is used in the business arena and there you can find a lot of DisplayLink based dockings for high end notebooks.

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Kyle Amadio commented · April 27, 2016 3:56 PM · Report

Check out this link - it will make 4.4.0-21 kernel work. Might need to boot without the USB 3 plugged in. Then after logon plug it in. It will work fairly well - my mouse leave a few artifacts lying around.

https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/displaylink-debian

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Anonymous commented · April 27, 2016 11:37 AM · Report

Nothing for me either. i get the same error..

WARNING: Kernel version 4.4.0-21-generic is not supported. Highest supported version is 3.19.

so the display link process will not run as the kernel is not supported... any ideas when this will be fixed?

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Hélios GILLES commented · April 27, 2016 6:29 AM · Report

I does not work for me too ... Monitor shows nothing.

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Johan Wasserman commented · April 23, 2016 12:46 PM · Report

Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing DisplayLink Linux Driver 1.0.335 100%
DisplayLink Linux Software 1.0.335 install script called: install
Distribution discovered: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
WARNING: Kernel version 4.4.0-21-generic is not supported. Highest supported version is 3.19.

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Daniel Buslowicz commented · April 14, 2016 3:33 PM · Report

I've got a Lenovo Yoga 2 with Lenovo ThinkPad USB 3.0 Docking Station (0A33970). I installed Ubuntu 16.04 Gnome (cd image from 11 of April).
Downloaded the DL drivers, installed, connected a monitor with DVI cable, restarted my laptop - monitor shows nothing. Any idea how to make this work?

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Adam Sutton commented · April 13, 2016 9:03 AM · Report

Did you have to do anything special to get it working? I installed the standard deb (which I have working on the same machine running 14.04) but I get nothing from within 16.04.

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DocWilco commented · March 21, 2016 7:06 PM · Report

16.04 already works (I'm using the available drivers with the 16.04 pre-release), but I agree that a PPA would be the way to go, so we can get automatic updates the way Ubuntu already does.

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