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.
160 comments
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Arnaldo Mandel
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The driver is for the DL series of devices. Is there a chance the DA100 will be supported too?
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Mike Burke
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I got it working on 15.04 - seems like I have to manually run the installation script every boot but otherwise it seems to work fairly well. Only very slight lag compared to a native display.
As stated earlier, not being able to use the proprietary Nvidia/AMD drivers is an inconvenience - I do understand why it's this way right now, but are there any plans to build in support for those in the future?
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Jesse Dickey
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"Limitations
Closed source AMD/NVIDIA drivers are incompatible with DisplayLink driver. Please use open-source AMD/NVIDIA drivers instead."
Rather unfortunate. I think most people with an AMD graphics card are going to want to run the latest proprietary drivers. My games won't even run without them. I have Linux Mint 17.2 on my laptop with an AMD Radeon graphics card. I use HDMI out from one card to a monitor. I have an Ankher USB 3.0 dock. I have a secondary monitor hooked up through the dock. Most of the time, I have both monitors enabled, but when I game or watch movies, I only enable the monitor connected to my graphics card.
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Norbert Stüken
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This sounds great! Did anybody try this driver yet? Any experiences with Thinkpad USB 3.0 docks?
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Jake Hewitt
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I'm running Ubuntu 14.04, just went through the installation and got "displaylink start/running, process 4117" but the monitors still aren't working or showing in in the Display settings
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silopolis
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This GREAT !
Thanks a lot and keep it on... now I'll have to wait for my Sliden'Joy to test it ;-)
Thanks a lot and keep it on
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Matthew Perry
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+1 for ubuntu 14.04
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blarg
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So when is this coming? We are already in to Q3 and I haven't seen anything about a public preview. Am I missing something, or is this vaporware?
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Anders
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is there a test driver that we can test ? i would like to eval and debug test it..
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Tom
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Great, I'm also looking forward to it's support...!
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Anonymous
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It's already the second month of Q 3 so can you be more specific?
Why support Android before Linux that makes no sense! -
Stéphane Mouton
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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
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+1 for Ubuntu/Debian
Just waiting for it to come out so I can buy some devices :D -
Johan Boulé
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Thank you very much! I was considering selling my display link equipment, but I'll wait :)
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Anonymous
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Another +1 for Ubuntu/Debian distros. Here another one with a dell XPS 2015 with Ubuntu.
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silopolis
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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
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+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
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Finally, great news
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Phil
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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