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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Anonymous
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I bought a wavlink UG39DK3, it using DL-3900 and not support Linux.That will be very greatful if it working under Linux, I want use this on my home mirco-server.
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Anonymous
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Please support linux environment. It's not good enough that we pay for a product which we can't even use effectively.
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Anonymous
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Please support Linux. This would be really great in regard to the new generation of notebooks coming up.
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Daniel Salazar commented
I would really like to see display driver for Ubuntu
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Anders
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When are u going to do a driver for it?
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Tara
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My vote - 1. Open source; 2. Ubuntu. No DRM. Many old Windows users are seeing that Linux is not just an 'alternative' for the geeks. It is world-wide and supported by most hardware vendors. Staying out of the loop supports the anger many are conveying here. If you aren't serious about supporting Linux, you aren't serious about computer hardware. Marketwise, you'd sell WAY more devices if you put some money into Linux support.
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Anders
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So just do a firmware loadable in modules. An NO drm ...
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Ólafur Arason
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This is the reason I haven't bought a display link device. I'm using Ubuntu but you should have an open source solutions or support the current effort. If it doesn't work without DRM which I don't understand why it shouldn't the have that part in a binary linkable to the open source driver. For x32, amd64 and arm.
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Darren Upton
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this would be so very useful - pls provide - thank you !
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Ryan Allen
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First choice,: open source solution.
If not possible, go for the top 6 on distro watch: http://distrowatch.com/
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Ryan Quinn
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I agree with many here that the best solution would be an open source driver. Distro maintainers can build and package binaries as needed. If it must be a closed source driver Ubuntu might be the best choice to start with since it is offered pre-installed by some of the major OEMs. I purchased a DisplayLink device a while back but it sits in a box of random wires and connectors since it was useless on Linux. I will not be buying another DisplayLink device until this is remedied. It's just not worth it to buy a device that will only work on 1 (windows) computer out of the 7 in my home.
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Leo Ufimtsev commented
Ubuntu/Fedora/Debian are usually quite popular.
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Anonymous
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I just don't want to use windows with this dock! Pick some distro and build a driver fast pls.
Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, it doesn't matters.
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Anonymous
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After having a look at the forums, there doesn't seem to be much interest in providing support for linux, not even via binaries (which is a bad idea btw), so the message is clear:
- they don't want our money
it's a pitty, seemed like a good idea...
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Anonymous
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i don't want DRM "protection", i paid for a display port for my linux laptops... it goes this way:
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Anonymous
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A proper linux support is needed. Please be quick about it.
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Don Bradken
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I think Debian would definitely be a good idea, given how there are so many Debian-based distributions. Some preliminary work actually has already been done by David Airlie at Red Hat (http://airlied.livejournal.com/80307.html) by the way.
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Jake Hewitt
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Please support linux. If I had known my displaylink device was incompatible with linux I never would have purchased it. Ubuntu would be the best distro, being that it is the most popular
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raakshasa
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Support for any linux distribution would be fine, say one of the Ubuntu LTS versions.
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Protractor Runnerone commented
Dying for any linux driver support. Please!
