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rdkls · 08-16-2016, 05:46 PM

TLDR; With the USB adapter connected and displaylink.service running the system crashes, does not crash if displaylink.service is not running.

Excessive blabbing below;

New to linux, hence Mint. I have worked through quite a few things to get my laptop where I want it for productivity, but am stuck on getting my monitors wrapped up.

Windows life...

It's an Aorus X7v2 with dual GTX 860M which supports the bottom three screens + laptop display natively... and surprisingly out of the box with Mint 18 (Cinnamon). Onboard mini-DP, HDMI and VGA; everything working there.

Other information: UEFI, secure-boot enabled, dual-boot W10 and Mint. The computer has three 120GB mSata and a 1TB HDD; Mint installed on sdc, W10 installed on sdb, sda is just storage and sdd is the third mSata I'm using to store VM images.

Code:

lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 931.5G  0 disk 
└─sda1   8:1    0 931.5G  0 part /mnt/DATA
sdb      8:16   0 119.2G  0 disk 
├─sdb1   8:17   0   450M  0 part 
├─sdb2   8:18   0    99M  0 part /boot/efi
├─sdb3   8:19   0    16M  0 part 
└─sdb4   8:20   0 118.7G  0 part 
sdc      8:32   0 119.2G  0 disk 
├─sdc1   8:33   0   104G  0 part /
└─sdc2   8:34   0  15.3G  0 part [SWAP]
sdd      8:48   0 119.2G  0 disk /mnt/VM

I connected my IOGear USB 3.0 to HDMI adapter and it seems to have been detected properly;

Code:

lsusb | grep Display
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 17e9:4301 DisplayLink

The display was not showing up in the Display System settings, doing a detect and a reboot did not help.

I downloaded the 1.1.68 driver and installed it via (Unfortunately, I did not copy the output when this ran.);

Code:

chmod +x displaylink-driver-1.1.62.run
sudo ./displaylink-driver.1.1.62.run

Approx. 30-45 seconds after that finished my other three screens (nvidia) went blank and the laptop display was showing what I can only describe as a loop of some sort; blinking cursor > black screen > blinking cursor > black screen... repeat.

Could not get to CTRL-ALT-F1 (even though I wouldn't know what to do there), had to CTRL-ALT-DEL x2 to reboot and ended up with the same thing.

Disconnected the USB adapter and rebooted using CTRL-ALT-DEL x2 again and was able to get into Mint.

Running systemctl | grep display shows the following;

Code:

systemctl | grep display
displaylink.service   ...   loaded active running   DisplayLink Manager Service

Stopped displaylink.servce (systemctl stop displaylink.service), reconnected the USB adapter and it shows in lsusb again.

08-16-2016, 05:46 PM	#1
rdkls Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2016 Posts: 1	X Server Crash/Loop? Mint 18 Cinnamon (4.4.0-21-generic) with DisplayLink 1.1.68 TLDR; With the USB adapter connected and displaylink.service running the system crashes, does not crash if displaylink.service is not running. Excessive blabbing below; New to linux, hence Mint. I have worked through quite a few things to get my laptop where I want it for productivity, but am stuck on getting my monitors wrapped up. Windows life... It's an Aorus X7v2 with dual GTX 860M which supports the bottom three screens + laptop display natively... and surprisingly out of the box with Mint 18 (Cinnamon). Onboard mini-DP, HDMI and VGA; everything working there. Other information: UEFI, secure-boot enabled, dual-boot W10 and Mint. The computer has three 120GB mSata and a 1TB HDD; Mint installed on sdc, W10 installed on sdb, sda is just storage and sdd is the third mSata I'm using to store VM images. Code: lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk └─sda1 8:1 0 931.5G 0 part /mnt/DATA sdb 8:16 0 119.2G 0 disk ├─sdb1 8:17 0 450M 0 part ├─sdb2 8:18 0 99M 0 part /boot/efi ├─sdb3 8:19 0 16M 0 part └─sdb4 8:20 0 118.7G 0 part sdc 8:32 0 119.2G 0 disk ├─sdc1 8:33 0 104G 0 part / └─sdc2 8:34 0 15.3G 0 part [SWAP] sdd 8:48 0 119.2G 0 disk /mnt/VM I connected my IOGear USB 3.0 to HDMI adapter and it seems to have been detected properly; Code: lsusb \| grep Display Bus 004 Device 003: ID 17e9:4301 DisplayLink The display was not showing up in the Display System settings, doing a detect and a reboot did not help. I downloaded the 1.1.68 driver and installed it via (Unfortunately, I did not copy the output when this ran.); Code: chmod +x displaylink-driver-1.1.62.run sudo ./displaylink-driver.1.1.62.run Approx. 30-45 seconds after that finished my other three screens (nvidia) went blank and the laptop display was showing what I can only describe as a loop of some sort; blinking cursor > black screen > blinking cursor > black screen... repeat. Could not get to CTRL-ALT-F1 (even though I wouldn't know what to do there), had to CTRL-ALT-DEL x2 to reboot and ended up with the same thing. Disconnected the USB adapter and rebooted using CTRL-ALT-DEL x2 again and was able to get into Mint. Running systemctl \| grep display shows the following; Code: systemctl \| grep display displaylink.service ... loaded active running DisplayLink Manager Service Stopped displaylink.servce (systemctl stop displaylink.service), reconnected the USB adapter and it shows in lsusb again.