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Old 04-02-2013, 10:08 PM   #7
dUsTiN
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Default Welcome to the club...

I wish I had some good news for you BELIEVE ME, but unfortunately that is not the case. I have spent hours upon hours UPON HOURS of my time on google trying to solve this issue since I purchased my DisplayLink Adapter a month ago. I have tried it on every single distro that had even the slightest chance of getting it working. Alas, still I get the green screen of death lol (well technically that's not true bc its the black screen now with newer driver) On the off chance that I may have found information you havent, here is what I know/think i know:

1. The displaylink drivers on the freedesktop.org website are pretty much useless on most of today's current- updated distros/kernels. There has not been any development there in a while so you will encounter dependancy HELL... (seriously, i gave up on that.)

2. The development went cold on the udlfb driver because it shifted focus to getting the hot plugging of usb displays built into the kernel.

3. Sometime last year, the first half was complete and the udl driver was loaded into the kernal. It's still a little glitchy though so most people disable it and fallback to the udlfb.

4. Now you are thinking "but you said udlfb was useless"? Well, it is if you are having to compile and install it BUT there are two distros that have support for udlfb already in their standard setups. There are actually a few more than just two BUT.. From all the reading, web crawling, and trial attempts, I came the closest to a setup working how I want when using Fedora (by a mile) and Ubuntu coming in second.

5. What's left for development is the software side of it concerning the xserver display manager. I read somewhere that the earliest this could be done realistically for FULL support is towards the end of 2013. At this point, although not easy people have had success in setting it up in mirror mode (both screens display the same desktop). I have not yet completed my setup mostly because if I don't take a break from obsessing I am going to throw the displaylink AND my 24 inch monitor out my 2nd story window! LOL

Here are some links I have in my "Hell Folder" . Sorry for rambling..hope you find something useful. Good luck!

http://plugable.com/2011/12/23/usb-graphics-and-linux --this has gotten me to where I am which is that it works but the refresh rate (i assume?) is too slow. Basically it takes the displaylink monitor an extra second or two to redraw changes to the desktop. Its usable but in no way acceptable.

Other Useful links:
http://www.mesa3d.org/llvmpipe.html
http://nameq.wordpress.com/2011/09/2...-linux-fedora/
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