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I bought a DisplayLink dock for my ubuntu laptops (2015 XPS and 2021 XPS) and it doesn't really work with either. It's quite maddening. It requires a strange d
by bingohbangoh 4y ago
I bought a DisplayLink dock for my ubuntu laptops (2015 XPS and 2021 XPS) and it doesn't really work with either. It's quite maddening.
It requires a strange driver I would've preferred to avoid. I tried a strange workaround on both and neither really works; one still doesn't display through the DisplayPort or HDMI, the other doesn't work with the M.2 2280 built into the dock.
\[0\]: https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/displaylink-debian https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/displaylink-debian
- trelane 4y agoDisplayLink is proprietary crap. There are apparently drivers for Mac, Windows, and ChromeOS, and a (open?) driver for the old, outdated 1.0 version. It won't work at all for anything recent. Despite the similarity in name, it has _nothing_ to do with DisplayPort. AFAICT, does a compressed image thing over USB, like VNC. But proprietary, of course. I was also tricked into buying one by the name and was surprised when it didn't work with Linux. Linux users should buy something that uses DisplayPort, _not_ DisplayLink. See https://www.dell.com/community/Laptops-General-Read-Only/Demystifying-USB-C-and-Thunderbolt-i-e-adapter-and-dock/td-p/5153006 https://www.dell.com/community/Laptops-General-Read-Only/Dem... for details on how USB/thunderbolt and DisplayPort when together.
- k8sToGo 4y agoI only made bad experience with displaylink. Now I use HDMI Dongle to connect directly to the GPU.