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  1. 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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      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.

    • 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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          • Fix the Linux driver so that it doesn't use 5-15% CPU when my DisplayLink device is _unplugged_.

            When unplugged, I consistently (and continuously, not just short spikes) see the DisplayLinkManager process take up 5-15% CPU. I don't understand why it's using so much CPU when there's literally nothing for it to do. It's really hurting my battery life & performance.

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            • Support for Surface book 2

              Surface book 2 - you need to restart for it to work. If you unplug the displaylink then plug back in you have to restart again. Displaylink manager 84

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              • Support WIndows 10 Night Light

                With the Windows 10 Creators Update, you can now lower the amount of blue light emitted from your PC with the new Night light feature.

                Settings > System > Display

                This feature doesn't work on my HP s140u monitor using DisplayLink 8.4.2250.0. I'm guessing it might not work on lots of other devices too.

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                • LG L206WU USB monitors working with Windows 10 Anniversary

                  Update DisplayLink Drivers to support LG L206WU USB monitors with Windows 10 Anniversary Update.

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                  • package ubuntu software properly

                    Packaging of ubuntu drivers into a .zip file with a name containing lots of spaces, which unzips into the current folder instead of a subfolder, and then requires the manual execution of an installer script (which may as well be called setup.exe), makes ubuntu users feel like we are running Windows again, and reminds us why we hated it so much. Ubuntu offers a superior packaging format (the .deb package), and a repository model which offers streamlined installation, and automatic updates forever. Setting up a repository for your software and packaging it properly will take very little more effort than…

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                    • add brightness support to non-windows OSes

                      It's stated in the documentation that color correction and brightness do not work. I'm mostly interested in controlling the birghtness - is display link working on these features for non-windows OSes?

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                      • I want to use displaylink in Android kitket.

                        Hello.
                        Used properly, in my displaylink in the Android Lollipop. I want to use displaylink in Android kitket.
                        Do you have plans to support Android kitket?

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                        • Fix issues with Mac OS Sierra driver

                          Fix issues with Mac OS Sierra drivers

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                          • 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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                            • Don't require drivers to be installed for disabled display adapters

                              I have a machine with an integrated display adapter and a PCI adapter running Windows 10. The integrated controller is not supported by Windows 10 and I have disabled it using device manager (I don't have an option to disable it in BIOS). When I attempt to install the DisplayLink core software, it re-enables the disabled adapter and then tells me it cannot install the software because there are no drivers for the adapter that I had disabled.

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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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                                    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.

                                  • Not working on ubuntu 16.04

                                    After I upgraded to 16.04 LTS, I could not use my DisplayLinks graphics/ethernet adapter for graphics (ethernet works fine). I recently installed the newest driver (1.2.65) but I get this error:

                                    Warning: dlm.service changed on disk. Run 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload units.
                                    Job for dlm.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status dlm.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

                                    I run journalctl as suggested by the error message and here is what I get:

                                    26 16:27:28 myhost systemd[1]: Starting DisplayLink Manager Service...
                                    -- Subject: Unit dlm.service has begun start-up
                                    -- Defined-By: systemd
                                    -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

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                                        • Enable 4K HDR support to TV's for extended display use when viewing High End Photographs in Capture One or other Photo Edditing software

                                          A large number of Photographers are using high end Cameras capable of recording 16 bits per pixel HDR. There are also a large number of 4K HDR TV's being sold but they only display Jpeg format at 8 bits per pixel. It would be fantastic to have a device that would bring these technologies together so people could use their TV's to view and or edit their HDR photographs properly on a 4K HDR device.

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