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.
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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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Anonymous
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Any news for the installation for the 4.3.0-wifitest-custom kernel?
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Martin
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Oh boy did I hate you guys for making me pay for the most expansive USB hub in the world.
Now I dug it out installed the drivers and the screens come to life!!
- Maybe I even buy a Dell again after all. -
AdminWim
(Product Manager, DisplayLink)
commented
> I can now go and buy a pair of Asus MB169B+ displays and connect them to my
> laptop running Ubuntu 14.04 and they'll work seamlessly with your updated drivers?Yes - this driver should work with the ASUS monitors.
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Marco
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Tengo el modelo DA100 Displaylink de cuatro usos: HDMI, VGA, USB y RED, baje el driver en Ubuntu 16.04, porque es el unico compatible con la Dell XPS 13 y, no funciona. Por favor explicar porque o colocar el procedimiento con líneas de comando en la terminal de Linux para no tener problemas.
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Artiom
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Wow! Does this mean exactly what it sounds? Please confirm the following:
I can now go and buy a pair of Asus MB169B+ displays and connect them to my laptop running Ubuntu 14.04 and they'll work seamlessly with your updated drivers?
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Andreas Balg
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Well I was so happy, when I saw the first release of this driver working after some tweaking and fiddling around even on a very current feodra 24 Linux running kernel 4.3 - Unfortunately It did not continue to do so very long -first the audio disappeared - now that we are running kernel 4.4.6 there is neither audio nor network and of course no display connection available any more - After one year off fiddling around with this technology as well on windows as on linux I'm going back to a notebook with classic physical docking connector and dock - even for windows (10) ... I've lost my confidence and patience in usb 3 and also usb-c and thelike used for HighRes Video and Network Connections - just crashes, driver issues and reboots over and over again -
Weh it comes to linux support I'm afaraid it will be tough without a open sourced driver which might come with the kernel itself ...
But I'm going to sell this cute and speedy little notebook now - just in order to get rid of the USB3 Dock What a pity and waste of money and time so far ...
- ASUS Zenbook i7 + ASUSTek USB 3 Dock built with DisplayLink Technology -
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Jim McKibben
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Using a Dell XPS 15 (Late 2013) ?9350? and a Dell ?D3100? display link port replicator.
OS: Ubuntu 15.10 (because it is one of the best lines of support for the laptops hardware)
Kernel: 4.2
Filesystem: Luks encryptedWhen I installed this last, it appeared to have installed. When I rebooted my LVM had crashed hard and I had to rebuild my laptop.
It would be great if things were ready for such an environment, please let us know when a new release happens!
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m_f_
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Isn't it about time to update/improve the Linux drivers again?
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Doug Van Horn
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Wanted to chime in with my experience:
Latptop: Dell XPS 15 9550
OS: Ubuntu 15.10** Working through Hub **
Keyboard
Wired Ethernet** Not Working through Hub**
Single Monitor
PowerI have the Monitor plugged directly into the laptop, but the nvidia 352 drivers don't work in "NVIDIA (Performance)" Mode (dual monitors sometimes work, but they eventually break and end up on a black screen). Putting the driver into "Intel (Power Saving Mode)" solves the problem.
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Juri Di Rocco
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Hi, I have installed displaylink driver without problem on my Ubuntu 15.10. The external monitor doesn't work. Could anyone help me pls? in the bottom I have attached my outputs.
<lsusb> output:
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 05e3:0612 Genesys Logic, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:5682 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0a5c:6412 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 001 Device 013: ID 05e3:0610 Genesys Logic, Inc. 4-port hub
Bus 001 Device 011: ID 05e3:0610 Genesys Logic, Inc. 4-port hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub<dmesg> output:
[ 4512.175891] usb 2-2: new SuperSpeed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
[ 4512.197686] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=05e3, idProduct=0612
[ 4512.197695] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 4512.197700] usb 2-2: Product: USB3.0 Hub
[ 4512.197704] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: GenesysLogic
[ 4512.199310] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 14 using xhci_hcd
[ 4512.206384] hub 2-2:1.0: USB hub found
[ 4512.206841] hub 2-2:1.0: 4 ports detected
[ 4512.415317] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=05e3, idProduct=0610
[ 4512.415326] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 4512.415330] usb 1-2: Product: USB2.0 Hub
[ 4512.415334] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: GenesysLogic
[ 4512.420191] hub 1-2:1.0: USB hub found
[ 4512.424987] hub 1-2:1.0: 4 ports detected
[ 4512.759930] usb 1-2.4: new high-speed USB device number 15 using xhci_hcd
[ 4512.854479] usb 1-2.4: New USB device found, idVendor=05e3, idProduct=0610
[ 4512.854490] usb 1-2.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
[ 4512.854496] usb 1-2.4: Product: USB2.0 Hub
[ 4512.855803] hub 1-2.4:1.0: USB hub found
[ 4512.856120] hub 1-2.4:1.0: 4 ports detected<xrandr> --listproviders output:
Providers: number : 1
Provider 0: id: 0x49 cap: 0x9, Source Output, Sink Offload crtcs: 4 outputs: 6 associated providers: 0 name:Intel -
Marco Gattei
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brought a DA100. After installing DKMS,
DisplayLink worked for me out of the box with latest version: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 15.10
WARNING: Kernel version 4.2.0-27-generic is not supported. Highest supported version is 3.19.
Installing
Configuring EVDI DKMS module
Registering EVDI kernel module with DKMS
Building EVDI kernel module with DKMS
Installing EVDI kernel module to kernel tree
EVDI kernel module built successfully
Installing x64/DisplayLinkManager
Installing libraries
Installing firmware packages
Installing license file
Adding udev rule for DisplayLink DL-3xxx/5xxx devices
Starting DLM systemd service
Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/graphical.target.wants/displaylink.service to /lib/systemd/system/displaylink.service. -
Anonymous
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I tried to install the driver on ubuntu 15.10 with the kernel 4.3.0-wifitest-custom but it is not working
It would be nice if DisplayLink develop the drivers for kernels 4.3
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 15.10
WARNING: Kernel version 4.3.0-wifitest-custom is not supported. Highest supported version is 3.19.
Unsatisfied dependencies. Missing component: Linux headers for running kernel, 4.3.0-wifitest-custom.
This is a fatal error, cannot install DisplayLink Linux Software. -
Anonymous
commented
I am the same as Zoran Jeremic on Mint 17.3, no errors but monitor not picked up via HDMI or DP. Using Displaylink D3100
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Zoran Jeremic
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Did anyone make this work with Linux Mint 17.3? I've tried many instructions that I found about how to modify installer script, but nothing worked for me. I don't have any errors, but monitor is not recognized.
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Brejneff
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Another vote form ARM Linux support!
Many Marvell Kirkwood devices will benefit greatly from adding HDMI interface to make them all-in-one media players. -
Torsten Gilles
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concerning my older post for ubuntu-15-10: I just checked the latest version of the driver (1.0.335) and all the changes described by Michael Moro and me (including the better way Marco Bernasocchi suggested for using systemd) are included and worked for me "out of the box".
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HEATH Robertson
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It would be great to have support for RHEL 6.7... which has a old Kernel... and not sure of the consequences of a kernel upgrade...
What would happen if we removed the depandancy check from the script to allow the install to complete.
# Required kernel version
# Thanks to Chris Billington for this patch
KVER=$(uname -r)
[ $(echo $KVER | cut -d. -f1) != 3 ] && missing_requirement "Kernel version $KVER is too old. At least 3.14 is required"
[ $(echo $KVER | cut -d. -f2) -lt 14 ] && missing_requirement "Kernel version $KVER is too old. At least 3.14 is required"
KMAJVER=$(echo $KVER | cut -d. -f1)
KMINVER=$(echo $KVER | cut -d. -f2)
([ $KMAJVER -lt 3 ] || [ $KMAJVER -eq 3 ] && [ $KMINVER -lt 14 ]) && missing_requirement \
"Kernel version $KVER is too old. At least 3.14 is required"Has anyone tried this? Success or otherwise?
Any progress with support for other distributions / Kernal versions? This thread has been going a while...
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Jeremy
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Why no official support for recent (4.x+) kernels yet? It mostly works for me on Ubuntu 15.10 (kernel 4.2.0), but has a lot of issues yet:
- Reconfiguring/moving the monitors almost always results in an X crash
- When X doesn't crash, it shows an error dialog saying "Could not set the configuration for CRTC 63"
- DisplayLinkManager takes up 100% of a CPU core a lot of the time
- On reboot, X always crashes the first time I plug in the DisplayLink hub, and random monitors are off for the login screen. On next login monitor settings are generally correct.Still needs some work to be production ready.
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Anonymous
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+1 for ARM Linux support!
DisplayLinkManager binary is only available for x86/x64!
Please provide it also for ARM CPUs like ARM11 and ARM Cortex-A series (e.g. A5, A7, A8, A9, A15, ...).
Or make it open source :-D
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Nathan
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My company sells a product that uses DisplayLink monitors and BeagleBones together. Unfortunately, the current driver UDLFB only supports the USB2 monitors. The new driver for Ubuntu does support the USB3 but ONLY for x86/64 chipsets.
We're looking for ARM processor support for the USB3 monitors. I can compile the kernel and/or any other drivers that we need but the recently released Ubuntu/USB3 driver has a closed source binary blob which is key to making the monitors work. This binary blob is currently ONLY supported on x86/64.
Will there be any support for ARM (whether source code or a binary)?