Hi all,
I'm not able to use my monitor via DisplayLink on Ubuntu 21.04.
I installed "DisplayLink USB Graphics Software for Ubuntu5.4-EXE.zip"
It seems the evdi module is not loaded by the kernel.
I see the following errors in syslog:
Code:
Aug 4 18:48:25 mZBOX systemd[1]: displaylink-driver.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 357.
Aug 4 18:48:25 mZBOX systemd[1]: Stopped DisplayLink Driver Service.
Aug 4 18:48:25 mZBOX systemd[1]: Starting DisplayLink Driver Service...
Aug 4 18:48:25 mZBOX kernel: [ 2015.120007] module: x86/modules: Skipping invalid relocation target, existing value is nonzero for type 1, loc 00000000b1e3d105, val ffffffffc1e48e3e
Aug 4 18:48:25 mZBOX sh[45704]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'evdi': Exec format error
Aug 4 18:48:25 mZBOX sh[45730]: Module evdi/1.9.1 already installed on kernel 5.11.0-25-generic/x86_64
Aug 4 18:48:25 mZBOX kernel: [ 2015.349287] module: x86/modules: Skipping invalid relocation target, existing value is nonzero for type 1, loc 000000006a9a04e2, val ffffffffc1e60e3e
Aug 4 18:48:25 mZBOX sh[45705]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'evdi': Exec format error
Aug 4 18:48:25 mZBOX systemd[1]: displaylink-driver.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Aug 4 18:48:25 mZBOX systemd[1]: displaylink-driver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Aug 4 18:48:25 mZBOX systemd[1]: Failed to start DisplayLink Driver Service.
Some details about my configuration:
Code:
uname -a
Linux mZBOX 5.11.0-25-generic #27-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 9 23:06:29 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
If you need more details, I'll be happy to provide them.