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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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    Anonymous shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    completed  ·  AdminWim (Product Manager, DisplayLink) responded  · 

    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 commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!

        I am using Ubuntu 15.04 and got it working after changing from NVidia drivers to open source drivers (and temporarily changing my resolution to 800x600). Great work.

      • Alan Savio Lobo commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        I installed this driver. I am now able to connect all my peripherals to my laptop using a single usb connection. Good job.
        I had an issue however, On connecting the D3100 to my Dell Inspiron 7437, my processor activity seems to touch almost 100% and my laptop becomes slightly sluggish. I am running Ubuntu 15.04.

        any advice ?

      • johndoe commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Thanks Michael Moro!

        extra note:
        - it doesnt work with proprietary drivers (nvidea)
        - linux mint kinda works, I had a problem on login, my laptio screen got stuck on the login screen.
        - it doesnt work on linux mint when returning to nouveau drivers, and setting it up as described below. I did the same on ubuntu, and it works as expected

        Good job displaylink!
        It is a good start, hope other distros will follow soon or getting better support.

        Rgds,
        JohnDoe.

      • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Thanks Michael,
        i've tryed your procedure but nothing happens, I've the kernel 4.1.3-040103-generic
        and lsusb give me the results as follow
        lsusb
        Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0b95:1790 ASIX Electronics Corp.
        Bus 002 Device 006: ID 0711:5812 Magic Control Technology Corp.
        Bus 002 Device 003: ID 05e3:0617 Genesys Logic, Inc.
        Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0711:5809 Magic Control Technology Corp.
        Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05e3:0617 Genesys Logic, Inc.
        Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
        Bus 001 Device 004: ID 03eb:8a0c Atmel Corp.
        Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1bcf:2987 Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc.
        Bus 001 Device 008: ID 046d:c312 Logitech, Inc. DeLuxe 250 Keyboard
        Bus 001 Device 007: ID 046d:c05a Logitech, Inc. M90/M100 Optical Mouse
        Bus 001 Device 006: ID 05e3:0610 Genesys Logic, Inc. 4-port hub
        Bus 001 Device 005: ID 05e3:0610 Genesys Logic, Inc. 4-port hub
        Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

        and the module seems to be cherged:
        lsmod | grep evdi
        evdi 36864 0
        drm_kms_helper 126976 2 i915,evdi
        drm 352256 8 i915,evdi,drm_kms_helper

        Thanks a lot for any suggestion
        Paolo

      • Michael Moro commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        The driver works on Linux Mint 17 which is a variant of Ubuntu!!!

        The problem with the driver installer is a mentioned in the thread, the udev rule is incorrect as it is looking for USB Vendor id "179" when DisplayLink is actually "17e9".

        To get this to work follow these steps. Before you do so, ensure the adapter is plugged into the USB and the monitor is plugged into the adapter.

        [Step 1]

        If you have attempted to load this already and its not working follow these steps. If you have not, only perform step 1a and 1b before moving to step 2.

        a) Extract the driver installation files
        ./displaylink-driver-1.0.138 --noexec --keep

        b) Move into the installation directory
        cd displaylink-driver-1.0.138
        c) If you have never installed this before, go to STEP 2 otherwise proceed to uninstall the original install attempt
        ./displaylink-installer.sh uninstall
        d) Check to see if the udl driver is loaded
        lsmod | grep udl

        e) If you see several lines of udl modules installed, run
        rmmod udl

        [Step 2]

        a) Open up the 'displaylink-installer.sh' script in your favorite editor.

        b) Modify line 10 from

        SYSTEMINITDAEMON=upknown

        to

        SYSTEMINITDAEMON=upstart

        c) Modify line 14 from

        echo 'ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="179", ATTR{bNumInterfaces}=="*5", GROUP="plugdev", MODE="0660"' > /etc/udev/rules.d/99-displaylink.rules

        to

        echo 'ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="17e9", ATTR{bNumInterfaces}=="*5", GROUP="plugdev", MODE="0660"' > /etc/udev/rules.d/99-displaylink.rules

        d) Save the file.

        e) Execute the script to install the driver './displaylink-installer.sh install'

        f) After the installation script completes, go to Menu->Preferences->Display (in Mint) and you should see your new monitor.

      • TJ commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        The published driver appears to have a bug in its udevd rule, where it matches on the idVendor 179 rather than DisplayLink's PCI vendor ID 17e9

      • Christoph Ott commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Wow just testet on my dell xps 13 with Ubuntu 15.04 and kernel > 4. @kudos to Chris for the patch + on usb3 it runs smoothly ! Awesome job....

      • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        I'm currently looking for a linux-compatible USB 3.0 port replicator but all interesting models seem to lack Penguin support. So I want to thank you for working on that, yet I confess, I am also a bit disappointed this has not happened ealier since USB 3.0 is around for quite some time now. Keep up on improving Linux support. Thanks.

      • Arnaldo Mandel commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        I just installed the driver on an XPS 13, with Mint Mate Raphaela and kernel 4.1.6. It was enough to follow Chris Billington's instructiions and further editing near the beginning of the file
        SYSTEMINITDAEMON=unknown

        to

        SYSTEMINITDAEMON=upstart

        I only tested with HDMI and it sort of works; the connection seems to be lost after a while. Also, it is sad that there seems to be no sound transfer. I wonder if this is the adapter's (DA100) fault or the driver's.

      • Oscar Buijten commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Hi All,
        Just installed the driver on my Dell Inspiron 14z running Ubuntu 15.04 with a Targus ACP70EU and do not seem to have much luck with it (ethernet, audio and all the rest is fine and the install procedure went es expected).
        No reaction from the display at all connecting to the display DVI port from both DVI & HDMI on the dock.
        Any suggestions?

        Thanks!
        Oscar

      • Yousif Rashid commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Is there a recommended docking station that works better than the others with Ubuntu, or will this driver perform the same with any DL device?

        Any recommendations from anyone?

      • Many Craig commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        "Closed source AMD/NVIDIA drivers are incompatible with DisplayLink driver. Please use open-source AMD/NVIDIA drivers instead."

        This is exceedingly annoying :(
        Why does it have to be this way? I can't use the open source drivers. All my performance-hungry games ain't gonna work no more then.

        Most people having top-notch hardware and that actually care enough about attaching extra USB monitors like asus 168B+ to their computers will WANT to use the closed-source proprietary drivers for their graphics cards.

        Is there any hope that this issue will be resolved in a future release of the driver?

      • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Was a long run, but now it works on Xubuntu 14.04.3LTS with my MB168B+
        Thanks, just before I finally made the desicion to modify this nice portable USB Monitor for HDMI Interface - saved me now finally some work and cost.
        Hope in the future DisplayLink drivers are available faster.

        A last wish, my ANDROID systems are not on 5.0 - they are all older 4.x.x - why isn't that supported as well???

      • Christoph Ott commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Just tested it out, it is the right first step. Both external monitors are working ! It feels a little bit slow on my usb2.0 port (I will retest it on my other device where I have usb3 working). On my first Monitor the ubuntu launcher isnt't shown up when laptop Builtin Display is also active -> but that could be just my own ubuntu problem (15.04). For a first release the result is awesome and I can't wait for more. Thanks for providing this driver !

      • jjolidon commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        First, thank you for the Linux driver, it is greatly appreciated.

        I have been running it on Ubuntu 15.04 on a Dell Inspiron 15 (7548) and I have a few small issues.

        Namely, after each login I need to restart DisplayLinkManager with "# systemctl restart displaylink" and then reconfiguring the position of screens.

        Is there somewhere where we can report that kind of things? Are you interested in reports from non 14.4.2 versions of Ubuntu?

      • Chris Billington commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        Thanks for the driver release! There is a bug in the installer which rejects kernel versions >=4 as too old. I was able to get the driver working on Ubuntu 15.04 kernel version 4.1.3 by unpacking the installer with:

        ./displaylink-driver-1.0.68.run --noexec --keep

        then patching displaylink-installer.sh with the following patch to allow kernel versions >=4.x:

        http://pastebin.com/nMjCPMtn

        And then installing with:

        sudo ./displaylink-installer.sh install

        It seems to be working well, although my mouse cursor flickers on the laptop display whenever an external display is connected.

      • Max commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

        @Wim: the kernel version check is awful. I am on 4.2-rc4 and it says that mine is too old, at least 3.14 is required....

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