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  1. Support Windows 10 Mobile Continuum

    In the MS world, Disply Link support is good when running Windows on a laptop or a tablet. When it comes to Windows phones. it is the opposite: nothing, nada.

    Ask Microsoft, They are so in need of trendy feature to boost their market share in mobile phone business, I am ready to bet they would finance the development.

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    • Support for Dell XPS in Ubuntu 16.10

      It seems to me that many people are reporting instability issues for Ubuntu 16.10 using the latest 1.2.65 driver. Severe instabilities occur for certain types of hardware that was supported in Ubuntu 16.04.

      I have a Dell XPS 13 (9343) and DL-3100. The screen keeps disappearing and re-appearing. It happens really randomly and sometimes many times per minute, other times it might be once per 20 minute. The displays go to black and everything crashes. It crashes often, but not always. This makes the applications stuck to that display crash as well. It is very poor performance (lag/hanging/high CPU…

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        Gathering Feedback  ·  1 comment  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
      • Linux driver update to support Kernel 4.9.*

        Displaylink stopped working on the new 4.9 kernel because the EVDI kernel module does not compile.

        There is a new release that supports kernel 4.9 and 4.10 of the EVDI library https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi/releases/tag/v1.3.43.
        Please also update the install file.

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        • Some applications detect DisplayLink as incompatible display driver. Problem exists with Adobe Premiere Elements 14, X-Plane, GoPro Quik

          When using DisplayLink some applications show incompatible display driver error. Problem exists with Adobe Premiere Elements 14, X-Plane, GoPro Quik on Windows 10 and I'think at last since version 8 of drivers. Solution is to open them on laptop screen and then switch to displays connected via DisplayLink (in my case i-tec USB 3.0 docking station). It would be nice if it could be solved.

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          • ARM linux support

            Better Linux support, a direct driver for X11 and support ARM devices and not crypted logs.

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              12 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

              I’ve updated this to be for ARM Linux support. EVDI is designed as an open source component to be adapted for different graphics architectures.

              The logs from the DisplayLink binary component are encrypted to protect IP. This is the same on all OSes for DisplayLink binary components.

            • Redh at7/Centos7 support!!!! The enterprise distro. Not some toy/play useless OS like ubuntu which is unusable in enterprise

              Redh at7/Centos7 support!!!! The enterprise distro. Not some toy/play useless OS like ubuntu which is unusable in enterprise

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              • add support for the VMWare SVGA Driver so that virtual machine guests can use display link

                When using virtual machines it would be really handy to have them display via usb adapters on spare monitors or PIP overlays in fancy monitors.

                Many virtualisation engineers would be buying your products, many times.

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                • I need full OpenGL-Support

                  I need full OpenGL-Support,

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                  • Fix some applications not running on laptop GPU

                    Hi since the Windows 10 Anniversary update games or utilities i have in Steam valve dont seem to use the GPU on my laptop but instead use intel graphic the laptop i have is a Lenovo Y50

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                      46 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

                      The change is needed in the operating system kernel mode graphics driver. Microsoft is looking into scheduling this development. In the meantime, provided you have purchased a platform allowing you to, the workaround is to disable the low end GPU so Windows uses the only one left. Today, Windows will always use the POST graphics card.

                    • Add support for VMware USB passthrough so guest OS can have dedicated display output

                      For DL-3xxx and DL-5xxx devices especially.

                      This is already working for MacOS but not working for Windows (as mentioned in DisplayLink KB 544870) and Linux.

                      This will allow multiple DisplayLinks to be used on single VM hosts behaving like thin clients, which is an enormous user base and thus market potential.

                      61 votes
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                        Gathering Feedback  ·  0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                      • Linux: reach Windows feature parity (mirroring, scaling, and rotating)

                        Currently unsupported / broken in DisplayLink on Linux:

                        - Display mirroring
                        - Display scaling
                        - Display rotation

                        This really limits what you can actually do with DisplayLink on Linux - i.e. you can only currently have an extended display activated with no scaling or rotation. You can't even use only the DisplayLink connected display on its own.

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                          Gathering Feedback  ·  17 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                        • Ethernet Android OTG

                          I know the on board Nic doesn't work with Android. I will tell you however that if you use an OTG Android Nic and plug it into the USB port it works fine. I wonder if that will help with allowing the on board to work. Is it that it's not an OTG supported Nic. If so how could we change that?

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                          • Allow to not display the Display link icon in the icon tray. This could be done with a simple check box

                            Allow to not display the Display link icon in the icon tray. This could be done with a simple check box.

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                            • BIOS support?

                              UEFI BIOS driver please

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                              • FreeBSD support

                                I use SUNIX VGA2715 which shows it is DisplayLink adapter. It works fine on Mac but it dosn't work on FreeBSD even if I load dynamic kernel module "udl".

                                I am not familiar with that ; if it requires additional driver, could DisplayLink provide or give me any possible to workaround ?

                                Thanks,
                                Apua

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                                • touchscreen support

                                  The screen connected to my displaylink device (Toshiba dynadock) is touchscreen capable. It works beautifully with my Windows laptops but when I connect my Nexus android tablet to the dynadock, the touchscreen capabilities of my screen are ignored.

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                                    2 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

                                    The touch screen controllers are separate from DisplayLink and there is no touch screen technology built into our ICs.

                                    Touch screen support is enabled by customers integrating DisplayLink and a touch screen controller into the same product.

                                    This means that the drivers for the touch screen controller differ between products and are not part of the DisplayLink driver.

                                    For touch support on Android, the touch screen drivers would need to be integrated into the Android OS, and this is not something DisplayLink can do as we do not own the OS on phones or tablets.

                                  • better mac icc profiles for monitors

                                    hi!

                                    there seems to be a need for better icc color profiles for mac. i'm using asus mb169b+ portable monitor and the colors are not very good. there is a real problem with the subtile greys, they are not getting displayed.

                                    hopefully there will be something done about this.

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                                      Gathering Feedback  ·  1 comment  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                    • In windows 7 drivers, allow to not display the Display link icon in the icon tray. This could be done with a simple check box

                                      In windows 7 drivers, allow to not display the Display link icon in the icon tray. This could be done with a simple check box

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                                        0 comments  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

                                        Today, this is at the discretion of the hardware vendor to select if they want the UI on their product. Switching to Gathering Feedback, but, with Windows 7 almost already 3 years out of mainstream support from Microsoft, DisplayLink is unlikely to create new features for that OS.

                                        If you don’t mind getting your hands dirty and have sufficient access rights on the machine, you can use http://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/528017

                                      • DP to eDP

                                        Add DP to eDP support

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                                        • Widescreen 21:9

                                          Support for 21:9 Display resolution

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                                            DisplayLink technology doesn’t have any restriction on layout or aspect ratio. I suggest you open a technical support case with your details with tecnhical_enquiries at displaylink,com to check that you don’t hit a hardware limitation from your adapter.

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