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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Wim responded · May 16, 2016

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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Wim responded · May 16, 2016

Our Ubuntu release has now been updated to include some bug fixes and add support for later Ubuntu versions, including 16.04:

http://www.displaylink.com/downloads/ubuntu

If you have any comments or reports to make about the release, 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.

More information about the release can be found here:

http://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/683482

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Wim responded · Apr 25, 2016

We’re pleased to announce the first version of DisplayLink support for Ubuntu is now available. It can be downloaded from here:

http://www.displaylink.com/downloads/ubuntu

We intend to maintain Ubuntu support, but have designed the driver in such a way, it should be possible to port the driver to other distributions.

If you have any comments or reports to make about the release, 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.

More information about the release can be found here:

http://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/683482

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Wim responded · Aug 6, 2015

We’re pleased to announce the first version of DisplayLink support for Ubuntu is now available. It can be downloaded from here:

http://www.displaylink.com/downloads/ubuntu.php

We intend to maintain Ubuntu support, but have designed the driver in such a way, it should be possible to port the driver to other distributions.

If you have any comments or reports to make about the release, please use the Linux forum here:

http://www.displaylink.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=29

More information about the release can be found here:

http://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/683482

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Wim responded · Aug 4, 2015

We’re pleased to announce the first version of DisplayLink support for Ubuntu is now available. It can be downloaded from here:

http://www.displaylink.com/downloads/ubuntu.php

We intend to maintain Ubuntu support, but have designed the driver in such a way, it should be possible to port the driver to other distributions.

More information about the release can be found here:

http://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/683482

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Wim responded · Aug 4, 2015

We’re pleased to announce the first version of DisplayLink support for Ubuntu is now available. It can be downloaded from here:

http://www.displaylink.com/downloads/ubuntu.php

We intend to maintain Ubuntu support, but have dseigned the driver in such a way, it should be possible to port the driver to other distributions.

More information about the release can be found here:

http://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/683482

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Wim responded · Jul 28, 2015

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Wim responded · Jun 30, 2015

Thank you for your patience with DisplayLink over support for Linux. The feedback on distros is very useful.

DisplayLink have been working on extending our OS support beyond Windows and Mac, and have recently introduced support for Android.

Now we have our first support for Android, we are pleased to announce that we will be extending our support for Linux, beyond USB 2.0 devices, with the first public preview for USB 3.0 devices planned in Q3 this year.

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Wim responded · May 19, 2015

It would be useful to know which Linux distros would be the most popular for DisplayLink support first.

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Phil commented · May 23, 2015 12:07 PM · Report

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 · May 23, 2015 11:18 AM · Report

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 commented · May 22, 2015 5:45 PM · Report

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!

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Gordon. commented · May 22, 2015 11:49 AM · Report

Ubuntu/Linux Mint

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Rodney Bunt commented · May 22, 2015 11:26 AM · Report

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 · May 21, 2015 2:15 PM · Report

Debian Stretch driver for Dl-3100 please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Bernd commented · May 21, 2015 11:26 AM · Report

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.

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Dan commented · May 20, 2015 4:19 PM · Report

Ubuntu I'm sure Canonical would be happy to work with you on this.

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Anonymous commented · May 19, 2015 2:37 PM · Report

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.

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