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.
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http://www.displaylink.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=29
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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:
- no linux support = refund my money. -
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!
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rektide
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I'm a huge fan of Debian, and use Ubuntu commercially. But I'd advise targeting Red Hat first: they lead the charge to Systemd (which near-everyone else is using, ex: Ubuntu, Debian) & will have the best support for it, the least filler to run that. It's a safe, solid choice.
As for riskier choices you might want to investigate, I'd bring up the topic of Wayland. It's an alternative to X, and while it's not used as heavily today, it has a number of advantages- from the core, it's built for allowing nesting, and this is a core advantage: the system can run a system Wayland with all of the graphics cards and Render-Nodes (output systems, what DisplayLink/USB2 devices expose in the existing udl driver), and individual users can run their own private Waylands inside of that, automatically, zero-overhead sharing the accelerated graphics capabilities of the root Wayland. Wayland is a much more flexible environment for the kind of advanced, multi-seat, multi-user work people are up to. The TizenOS has made extensive use of this capability, for example in their In-Vehicle Interface[1], which allows multiple passengers to share the same display system effectively. Wayland would be a more future-sighted, optimistic target than good old X support.
Red Hat has been seriously backing Wayland for a while, and appears to intend to switch over to it entirely sometime in the future. Desktop environments such as Gnome and KDE support it. It also can host X apps efficiently. On the other hand, Ubuntu has been creating their own display system 'Mir', but there's no support by any major desktop environments other than their own. This difference also highlights a primary reason to pick supporting Red Hat for your first DisplayLink/USB3 taget (whether you pick the advanced, more capable Wayland, or X to support): Ubuntu has been inventing their own things, and is pushing disconvergent change[2], whereas Red Hat has been working within the community and backing community technology development.
I noticed ya'll have Android support now. Congratulations. It tickles my heart to hear there may be an interest in Linux again. I have the utmost confidence Linux has evolved into the ideal hotplugged-multi-monitor and multi-seat environments for DisplayLink, and I expect DisplayLink will be amazed and overjoyed at the levels of adoption for your products with support for USB3[3] devices finally added in.
[1] https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/Multi-user_DisplayManagement
[2] http://www.datamation.com/open-source/why-cant-ubuntu-play-well-with-others.html
[3] http://www.displaylink.com/news/pressreleaseviewer.php?id=64 -
Anders
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its not a distro issue need a driver so we can install it.. i also have a usb3 from dell with 4k.
im running Linux mint 17 for work. -
Oliver
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I also do believe an open source driver without DRM support for one distro is enough, as the community will be able to adept it to all other distros. I also believe that ubuntu would be a good choice, as for example Dell sells laptops with ubuntu pre-installed, and sells USB3.0 docking stations with the DisplayLink chipset in question.
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Phil
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Sir, The most popular linux distro to support first is a tough question but thank you for considering any distro to support. Maybe looking at the three most common distro's that most other distros are derived from would help answer your question, they are Debian, Slackware and Red Hat. If you would consider supporting those distro's in that order using open source code the linux community will take care of all the "Sub-Tier" distro's. Thank you for your support.
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Paul Harris commented
Yes Ubuntu would be most useful but if you open source the driver it can be packaged for different distros by various distro's packaging teams.
Please make a Linux driver
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sergey leuhin
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I'm using displaylink usb2.0 docking station with my Fedora 21 pc and it works great.
Linux enables me to use my pc in true multiseat mode unlike windows.
Hope you'll make linux driver for the next usb type-c (3.1) family of your tecnology! -
Gordon.
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Ubuntu/Linux Mint
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Rodney Bunt
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RED HAT Enterprise 7, CENTOS 7 I have a lenovo USB to DVI adapter I would really like to use on my Lenovo thinkpad.
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Lorenzo Hortigüela Martín commented
Debian Stretch driver for Dl-3100 please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Bernd
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I sign that! That is a very good suggestion!
My company almost bought Dells new XPS 13 with Ubuntu preinstalled, but because there is no possibility to use the USB 3.0 adapter to add two extra monitors, we had to turn Dells offer down. -
Dan
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Ubuntu I'm sure Canonical would be happy to work with you on this.
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Anonymous
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Firstly: I think the most popular desktop Linux environment is pretty obviously Ubuntu. Secondly I think it doesn't matter too much because if an open source driver is made it can be adapted by any distro's packaging team.