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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Stéphane Mouton commented
Good news: I bought a Dell XPS + displaylink while on Linux in order to evaluate if my company could switch from Dell specific docking to displaylink which is more convenient. As we have many linuxusers, displaylink support is a go/nogo decision. We can wait until end of year to see if we can switch
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Diego Carrera commented
great news, another +1 for ubuntu
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Arthur Romanov commented
+1 for Ubuntu/Debian
Just waiting for it to come out so I can buy some devices :D -
Johan Boulé commented
Thank you very much! I was considering selling my display link equipment, but I'll wait :)
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Anonymous commented
Another +1 for Ubuntu/Debian distros. Here another one with a dell XPS 2015 with Ubuntu.
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silopolis commented
YESSS ! This couldn't have been more timely as there are only a few days left for sliden'joy kickstarter campaign...
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Peter R commented
+1 for Ubuntu / Debian based distros. Couldn't believe that USB 3.0 Stations still have no support/drivers for Linux in 2015. Please provide drivers and get thousands of new customers :-)
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Anonymous commented
Finally, great news
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Phil commented
Sir,
That is great news, I am running linux mint. let me know if there is anything I can do to help support this effort -
Darren Upton commented
thanks for the update - looking forward to DisplayLink support for Linux (am currently using Ubuntu) - rgds
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Miguel commented
Hi Wim, I have the same issues, so I believe that the most used distros by final user are: Ubuntu 14+, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Debian. Mine is Ubuntu 14, and I tried to make my AOC usb monitor works using tools, shell, but I failed. I'll wait your linux version. Best regards.
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JayROM commented
We need to support DisplayLink USB 3.0 devices on our embedded platforms (quite similar to Raspberry PI) and which are running custom Linux distros made using Yocto 1.7 (kernel 3.14):
https://www.yoctoproject.org/
We need support for both ARM (e.g. Cortex-A) and X86 (e.g. Intel Atom) CPUs. -
Peter Van Bouwel commented
For me the Distro would be LInux Mint 17.2 Kernel Linux Della 3.13.0-37-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 22 21:28:38 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux. On distrowatch the Debian based once seem to take up the majority but in my professional life I do encounter much more Red Hat based servers (But currently no need for DisplayLink adapters over there).
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Anonymous commented
Drivers should be distro agnostic. While I am very interested in products that use your tech I'm not about to change my distro just to use one. If you aim for specific distros, it's a near guarantee that the one I use won't be on your list. This will hold for a surprising number of people because the popular distros have their numbers boosted by main-stream users, not the sort of power users you're going to want proving out your new driver for you, not the sort of users that are most interested in your products.
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Anonymous commented
I bought a DA100 adapter from Dell, along with the XPS 13 2015. I figured if they shipped it with Ubuntu I wouldn't have any issues.My bad. Dell should clarify that the device uses DisplayLink technology and that it doesn't have a driver for any Linux version. I paid for a device that I can't use.
If you provide support for Fedora, you would almost automatically make it available on RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux as well.
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Anonymous commented
I think every Debian-based distro would be fine.
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plagued commented
USB3 displalink is definitely needed and wanted for Linux. Thanks.
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Anonymous commented
if you want to win the hearts and minds of the people who make the internet you should really consider hurrying up linux support.
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Christoph Ott commented
WOW that will be so amazing !!!! DisplayLink + Linux = Match in Heaven. I would also suggest Ubuntu so the Dell Team can also deliver there products with it. Please keep us informed asap for test possiblities.
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Anonymous commented
Man, this would be great. Why not go open source driver? Work with the Linux Kernel hardware guys to get a driver in the mainline kernel. There would be a number of advantages to this:
- Your hardware would 'just work' out of the box on any linux distro with the newer kernel
- By open-sourcing, you'd have a volunteer community of the best developers in the world working on your driver and continually improving it. For free.
- You don't have to 'pick winners' distro or display-server wise (where, btw, Mir is a lame-duck, Xorg is the incumbant for the next couple of years, and Wayland is the future mainstream).Admittedly on the second point, you'd have to commit some limited resources initially (just to kick things off until the open-source community takes over). But it makes sense from a business perspective. Power-users and developers are early adopters, and they have an actual need for your technology (as opposed to your regular home-user, who's single-monitor use-cases are covered by HDMI). Linux users are disproportionately power-users and developers.
By not supporting linux, you're alienating your core user-base and the early adopters who will drive mainstream uptake of displaylink. And if you want to see the difference in outcomes between embracing the open-source community vs. treating it as the poor cousin, look at ATI vs. Nvidia driver support in linux (and how reviled Nvidia is in the open-source community).
Here's what happens when you embrace open-source: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_gallium3d_2014&num=1
And ATI (and Intel for that matter), are just about to package new and even better drivers in the soon-to-be-released 4.2 kernel.