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Old 05-04-2017, 06:19 AM   #1
ThaHypnotoad
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Post Ubuntu 16.04 no functionality

I'm plugging it in, seeing the monitor power on (this is one of the usb powered ones) and getting nothing. DisplayLink is showing up in lsusb, but nothing on the display itself, and nothing in the displays settings window.

edit: Everything worked for a year. This started happening when my original monitor stopped powering on and I had to rma it, but numerous things happened between when the original broke and when I got the replacement, so I can't narrow it down to any specific change in my system.
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Old 05-11-2017, 06:43 PM   #2
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anybody at all? This is a linux specific issue, and it seems that if there's no support for this software, I might as well just return this crap.
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Old 05-15-2017, 10:25 AM   #3
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Unhappy Ubuntu 16.04 Not working for me either

So I'm running Ubuntu Xenial (16.04) (4.8.0-51-generic) and i'm having the same issue no matter what i do nothing appears, so let's start with lsusb:

lsusb -t -v
lsusb -v

So nothing there to indicate an issue; now xrandr with displaylink DISCONNECTED:

Code:
chrisd@chrisd-ubuntu:~/Downloads$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-0 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 382mm x 215mm
   1920x1080     60.02*+
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-4 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
And now with it connected:
Code:
chrisd@chrisd-ubuntu:~/Downloads$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-0 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 382mm x 215mm
   1920x1080     60.02*+
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-4 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
A quick look at my sytem in case it yields any info for you:

Code:
chrisd@chrisd-ubuntu:~/Downloads$  sudo lshw -short
H/W path        Device     Class          Description
=====================================================
                           system         P7xxDM-G (Not Applicable)
/0                         bus            P7xxDM-G
/0/0                       memory         64KiB BIOS
/0/18                      memory         128KiB L1 cache
/0/19                      memory         128KiB L1 cache
/0/1a                      memory         1MiB L2 cache
/0/1b                      memory         8MiB L3 cache
/0/1c                      processor      Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
/0/1d                      memory         32GiB System Memory
/0/1d/0                    memory         8GiB SODIMM Synchronous 2133 MHz (0.5 ns)
/0/1d/1                    memory         8GiB SODIMM Synchronous 2133 MHz (0.5 ns)
/0/1d/2                    memory         8GiB SODIMM Synchronous 2133 MHz (0.5 ns)
/0/1d/3                    memory         8GiB SODIMM Synchronous 2133 MHz (0.5 ns)
/0/100                     bridge         Sky Lake Host Bridge/DRAM Registers
/0/100/1                   bridge         Sky Lake PCIe Controller (x16)
/0/100/1/0                 display        GM204M [GeForce GTX 970M]
/0/100/1/0.1               multimedia     GM204 High Definition Audio Controller
/0/100/14                  bus            Sunrise Point-H USB 3.0 xHCI Controller
/0/100/14/0     usb1       bus            xHCI Host Controller
/0/100/14/0/1              input          USB Receiver
/0/100/14/0/2              generic        EgisTec_ES603
/0/100/14/0/4              input          Microsoft
/0/100/14/0/a              multimedia     BisonCam, NB Pro
/0/100/14/0/b              communication  Bluetooth wireless interface
/0/100/14/1     usb2       bus            xHCI Host Controller
/0/100/14/1/5              generic        Displaylink USB3.0 Display
/0/100/14.2                generic        Sunrise Point-H Thermal subsystem
/0/100/16                  communication  Sunrise Point-H CSME HECI #1
/0/100/17                  storage        Sunrise Point-H SATA controller [AHCI mode]
/0/100/1c                  bridge         Sunrise Point-H PCI Express Root Port #1
/0/100/1c.6                bridge         Sunrise Point-H PCI Express Root Port #7
/0/100/1c.6/0   enp59s0    network        Killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
/0/100/1c.7                bridge         Sunrise Point-H PCI Express Root Port #8
/0/100/1c.7/0              generic        RTS5250 PCI Express Card Reader
/0/100/1d                  bridge         Sunrise Point-H PCI Express Root Port #13
/0/100/1d/0     wlp61s0    network        Wireless 8260
/0/100/1f                  bridge         Sunrise Point-H LPC Controller
/0/100/1f.2                memory         Memory controller
/0/100/1f.3                multimedia     Sunrise Point-H HD Audio
/0/100/1f.4                bus            Sunrise Point-H SMBus
/0/1            scsi2      storage        
/0/1/0.0.0      /dev/sda   disk           1TB Samsung SSD 850
/0/1/0.0.0/1    /dev/sda1  volume         500MiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/1/0.0.0/2    /dev/sda2  volume         930GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/1/0.0.0/3    /dev/sda3  volume         785MiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/2            scsi3      storage        
/0/2/0.0.0      /dev/sdb   disk           500GB Samsung SSD 850
/0/2/0.0.0/1    /dev/sdb1  volume         419GiB EXT4 volume
/0/2/0.0.0/2    /dev/sdb2  volume         29GiB Extended partition
/0/2/0.0.0/2/5  /dev/sdb5  volume         29GiB Linux swap / Solaris partition
Here's dmesg surrounding plugging this in and unplugging it:
Code:
[ 2593.376869] usb 2-5: new SuperSpeed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd
[ 2593.397544] usb 2-5: New USB device found, idVendor=17e9, idProduct=4301
[ 2593.397548] usb 2-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 2593.397551] usb 2-5: Product: Displaylink USB3.0 Display
[ 2593.397553] usb 2-5: Manufacturer: DisplayLink
[ 2593.397555] usb 2-5: SerialNumber: PCT1360110334
[ 2602.958488] evdi: [W] evdi_painter_disconnect:462 (dev=-1) An unknown connection to ffff964aa2d11600 tries to close us
[ 2602.958489] evdi: [W] evdi_painter_disconnect:463  - ignoring
[ 2602.961704] evdi: [D] evdi_painter_connect:443 (dev=1) Connected with ffff964aa2d11600
[ 2602.961705] evdi: [D] evdi_detect:75 (dev=1) Painter is connected
[ 2602.961745] evdi: [D] evdi_painter_crtc_state_notify:360 (dev=1) Notifying crtc state: 3
[ 2602.962448] evdi: [D] evdi_detect:75 (dev=1) Painter is connected
[ 2602.962449] evdi: [D] evdi_painter_get_edid_copy:192 (dev=1) 00 ff ff
[ 2628.550516] open /dev/fb1 user=1 fb_info=ffff964b55e2b800 count=1
[ 2628.555856] released /dev/fb1 user=1 count=0
[ 2699.631763] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: Cannot set link state.
[ 2699.631771] usb usb2-port5: cannot disable (err = -32)
[ 2699.631780] usb 2-5: USB disconnect, device number 8
[ 2699.634434] evdi: [D] evdi_painter_disconnect:483 (dev=1) Disconnected from ffff964aa2d11600
[ 2699.634439] evdi: [D] evdi_detect:78 Painter is disconnected
[ 2699.634505] evdi: [W] evdi_painter_disconnect:462 (dev=-1) An unknown connection to ffff964aa2d11600 tries to close us
[ 2699.634507] evdi: [W] evdi_painter_disconnect:463  - ignoring
[ 2699.636218] evdi: [D] evdi_detect:78 Painter is disconnected
some more log messages for /var/log

DisplayLinkManager.log
FirmwareTrace.log
FirmwareTrace.old.log
PL2482H_IVM610D-11185M2B00633.edid
Xorg.0.log
chrisd-ubuntu_2017-05-15T10:54:54.126909.zip

Any help or suggestions much appreciated!

Last edited by dawesc; 05-15-2017 at 10:57 AM.
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Old 05-15-2017, 01:31 PM   #4
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Hi,

You're using NVIDIA proprietary driver. Does it work with nouveau?

Cheers,
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Old 05-15-2017, 02:46 PM   #5
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Hi Michal, thanks for your prompt reply, so now it seems to kill my X session (well sort of my machine really) but if i ssh in from another computer first I've been allowed to run the logging thing. So please see new logs here:

chrisd-ubuntu_2017-05-15T14%3A40%3A54.385996.zip
displaylink_while_plugged.logs.tar.gz

Many thanks

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Old 05-18-2017, 02:04 PM   #6
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Bump... Please is it possible to get an update on this
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Old 05-21-2017, 11:42 AM   #7
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Smile May be a wrong support for an old DisplayLink adapter

Hi,
after a long time I would today try my DisplayLink config again. It doesn't work because I was gone to Ubuntu 16.04. So I installed the newest DisplayLink software and still not working. lsusb shows the DisplayLink adapter, system setting not.

After some investigation I entered "systemctl start dlm" on a terminal and system setting shows the DisplayLink adapter/screen. Switching the DisplayLink display on and it ist working fine.

My DisplayLink adapter is 17e9:0141. May be it helps You too! For me is the question: "what to do to get my DisplayLink adapter running without typing the command each time I reboot?"

Regards Rainer
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Old 05-23-2017, 11:03 PM   #8
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anybody at all? This is a linux specific issue, and it seems that if there's no support for this software, I might as well just return this crap.
My issue was using the Nvidia module in Xorg, once I switched back to the MESA module via bumblee / prime indicator and logged out and back in, viola the screens came up. I was amazed!

I am mainly writing this to anyone reading this, and to myself in the future. I recently upgraded from 14.04 to 16.04 and just kept using Nvidia because it was a bit faster until I got to work and plugged in my dock, thats when I had to debug this and figured this out.
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