11-11-2018, 05:11 AM | #1 |
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skewed rotated distorted image
hello - I am using the displaylink-rpm for Fedora on a Dell XPS13 with a Lenovo LT1421. I haven't used the USB screen for a few months and updated to the latest Fedora 29 recently. I compiled and installed the latest displaylink-rpm.
The driver seems to be working well except that the image is massively distorted. I have posted the issue on github with evdi and would like to point to it in case someone experience anything in kind https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi/...ment-437601509 |
11-29-2018, 06:41 AM | #2 |
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I had something like that as well, after an update to 4.4.24-1. Had to remove an evdi.conf config that I had used to enable rotation/portrait orientation. Sadly, vertical orientation no longer works for me, and I have severe mouse pointer artifacts.
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05-29-2019, 09:07 PM | #3 |
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I have a similar issue with an AOC E1659Fwu. I use Fedora 30 (KDE) and the rpm package from https://github.com/displaylink-rpm/displaylink-rpm: evdi 1.6.1 (displaylink-rpm v5.1.26-1).
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$ uname -r 5.0.16-300.fc30.x86_64 This is the image the screen is supposed to show: When I use a lower resolution like 1024x768, the screen works just fine: I took the above pictures while the screen was connected to a HP EliteBook 2760p via USB 2.0, but I could reproduce this issue on a similar setup with a ThinkPad T440p (Fedora 30 as well) using USB 3.0. On both systems, the distortion did not occur a few month ago (when I was on Fedora 28). A second issue I noticed on both systems is a flickering cursor on the primary (non-DisplayLink) screen, which is rather annoying. I tried to capture it on a video: https://vimeo.com/339206961 Any help would be highly appreciated! — Jan Last edited by jei; 05-29-2019 at 09:10 PM. |
07-09-2019, 06:33 PM | #4 |
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Hi everyone,
when I tried the new evdi release (1.6.2) today I played around with different resolutions and worked out a workaround for the distortion problem. My solution is to run the USB monitor at a slightly lower resolution than intended by the specification. I use 1360x768 instead of 1366x768. On my device, this does not lead to a blurred image, the screen works just fine then. I wrote the following shell script to set up the custom resolution (1360x768). Please adjust the variables in ll. 5-7 to match the correct RandR output (run xrandr without any parameters to find it) and the desired resoultion. Code:
#!/bin/bash # Adjust these parameters to your needs. # These worked for me (AOC E1659Fwu) OUTPUT="DVI-I-1-1" HORIZONTAL_RES="1360" VERTICAL_RES="768" MODELINE="$(cvt ${HORIZONTAL_RES} ${VERTICAL_RES} | tail -n 1 | awk '{for (i=3; i<=NF; i++) print $i}')" MODELINE_NAME=$(echo ${MODELINE} | awk '{print $1}' | sed -e 's/^"//' -e 's/"$//') echo "Modeline:" echo ${MODELINE_NAME} ${MODELINE} echo echo "[*] xrandr --newmode" xrandr -d :0 --newmode ${MODELINE_NAME} ${MODELINE} echo "[*] xrandr --addmode (${OUTPUT})" xrandr -d :0 --addmode "${OUTPUT}" ${MODELINE_NAME} echo "[*] Set new resolution" xrandr -d :0 --output "${OUTPUT}" --mode ${MODELINE_NAME} — Jan Last edited by jei; 07-09-2019 at 06:46 PM. |
08-14-2019, 05:03 PM | #5 | |
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Thank you Jan or jei for the workaround script.
Hi Jan or jei,
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, for this workaround script! I am now able to use my AOC e1659Fwu at 1360x768. Before I could only get 1024x768 to work. I am able to get my TOSHIBA PA3923U-2LC3 to work at this resolution as well. (I am going to return the AOC because it was part of my troubleshooting.) I had tried every combination you can imagine with *.conf files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ to get 1366x768 working. I had tried on Xubuntu 18.04 and Debian 10 with no luck and on multiple computers, with both Intel and AMD graphics. The best resolution I could achieve was 1024x768. Otherwise, 1366x768 looked something like the pictures on this thread. I have had the exact same issue on both monitors I currently have in my possession. I am guessing that this is just a bug that Displaylink needs to resolve. As for the mouse flickering issue, it is very minimal on my system right now. I have an old Acer laptop (2010 model) with Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 350 @ 2.27GHz, with Intel integrated graphics. I am running Debian 10 with Xfce, vanilla install i.e. default kernel etc. I used the AdnanHodzic script to install on Debian. Here is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory. It has two files, 20-displaylink.conf and 20-evdidevice.conf. Perhaps this can help. Contents of 20-displaylink.conf : Section "Device" Identifier "DisplayLink" Driver "modesetting" Option "PageFlip" "false" EndSection Contents of 20-evdidevice.conf: Section "OutputClass" Identifier "DisplayLink" MatchDriver "evdi" Driver "modesetting" Option "AccelMethod" "none" EndSection Update: Just a warning that after running the script and arranging my screens, without thinking much, I decided to "Save" my layout in the Xfce Display application. This for some reason broke X when I rebooted. I also did not even have access to a tty. Fortunately though I fixed it via chroot. (If you want this setup every time, add the script to your autostart items for your desktop environment.) Quote:
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09-04-2019, 02:19 AM | #6 |
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Just thought I'd say the generic: "I'm having the same problem." I've had my USB AOC monitor at 1024x768 instead of 1366x768 for a while now.
Once anyone finds a workaround to get me a few pixels back I'd really like that. That extra resolution really helps. |
09-04-2019, 05:49 PM | #7 | |
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The workaround is posted on this thread.
The workaround is the script above posted by jei. It will give you 1360x768. Please post if you need help in running it.
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10-18-2019, 09:11 AM | #8 | |
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Bash script works great!
The bash script worked very well for me and solved my problem, thank you! I wanted to add a few more details for others like me that might not be familiar with running bash scripts.
Step one - take the code below and copy paste it into a text editor, for example, gedit. Then save the file with any name you want, or something like fixresolution.sh. Save it in a folder that is easy to find or navigate to. Quote:
Step three - in the terminal, type: Code:
chmod +x fixresolution.sh ./fixresolution.sh Last edited by edge-case; 10-18-2019 at 10:19 AM. |
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