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Old 05-22-2013, 12:15 PM   #1
Lope
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Exclamation Displaylink has NO LINUX Support

It would be nice if Displaylink made a driver for a current release of Ubuntu Linux.

I've been unable to use Displaylink products on Linux.
Its immensely frustrating.
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Old 07-30-2013, 01:59 PM   #2
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can we make this a sticky thread, so people researching can know they should not buy any displaylink products?
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Old 09-08-2013, 10:50 AM   #3
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Default Bought Adapter imported by Ic-Intracom italy

It says Linux supported but the only reasonable result is a green monitor.
I am using Kubuntu 12.04 and X11 integration is non existent

I did try various "guides" nut the results are near zero.

Lots of money are spent to support all the various versions of Windows but nothing is spent on the cheaper and better Linux alternative.

I cannot use WIndows on NSA spying, so the only alternative is Linux !!
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Old 09-11-2013, 02:44 PM   #4
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Thumbs down displaylink linux driver support

There are so many people frustrated with Displaylink, its crazy.

Here is a site all about Displaylink's driver support
http://displaylinklinuxdriver.wordpress.com

Its important that we come back to this forum regularly and post and post our disagreement with Displaylink's policies and get the word out (on other forums and blogs) that Displaylink is not Linux friendly as they claim to be.

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Old 09-12-2013, 06:55 PM   #5
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nice link!
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Old 11-08-2013, 04:58 AM   #6
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Default Extremely disappointed!

Very sad.. checking in on this issue after I received a dock through work 5 months ago. All this because according to DisplayLink, they need to ensure content protection remains secure under an open source environment. To hell with the greed and DRM! If someone were to crowdsource a solution, I would throw my money at it.
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Old 08-16-2014, 10:40 AM   #7
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Quote:
Originally Posted by display-damiano View Post
It says Linux supported but the only reasonable result is a green monitor.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/fb/udlfb.txt
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If the DisplayLink device is successful, it will paint a "green screen" which means that from a hardware and fbdev software perspective, everything is good.
See http://plugable.com/2011/12/23/usb-graphics-and-linux/ for some config deets to get xorg to work. I haven't tried Wayland yet.
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