1.7b2 Drivers DO NOT WORK with Lion
 

I upgraded my late-2008 unibody MacBook Pro from 10.6.7 to 10.7 (Lion) this morning. I had already installed the 1.7b2 drivers last week, which promised Lion compatibility.

When Lion started up, I could not see the login screen (but could log in by typing in my password and unlock), and once logged in, I could not see the contents of any Finder windows, etc.

So if you haven’t upgraded to Lion yet, DO NOT install the 1.7b2 drivers. I haven’t tried re-installing them yet.

Working fine for me on my iMac.

Same experience as cshbell. Same model computer. Upgraded to Lion first then installed the DisplayLink driver.

My login screen has completely disappeared!

Same Here Also with MBP 17-inch Early 2009 model
 

I had the exact same experience with my MBP early 2009 model. Where the login screen should appear, I simply see the gray "linen" screen and a mouse pointer. I did not try typing my password "blind" to see if I could still login in. The only solution was to boot into safe-mode and remove the driver. After doing that, all screens/displays work correctly (I am using a second monitor running off of the mini-display port on the MBP -- the DisplayLink drives a 3rd monitor).

I had the same problem, what worked for me was setting the energy saver preference for 'graphics' to 'Higher performance".

UPDATE - robbertraktoe is correct. I turned the energy saver preference for graphics to "Higher Performance", re-installed the driver, rebooted, plugged in my DisplayLink and -- TA-DA!! my third display is now working. Thanks for the info.

2011 mbp
 

The b2 driver *mostly* works with my 2011 MBP with the 1 Gig discrete graphics. However, if I click the new-to-lion link on the right side of the menu bar that has my login name (to go to the login screen), it results in the displaylink screen going blank, the login screen appearing on the primary display, and the pinwheel turning forever with no response from keyboard...basically locked everything up - until I unplug the DisplayLink device from the USB - then all is good again (except I am minus a display of course). Once I log back in, I can plug the display link device in again and everything is happy.

My setup is 2011 MBP, AMD Radeon HD 6750M 1Gig, using both an external thunderbolt display AND the Displaylink external display AND the native laptop screen.

Early 2011 MBP
 

Graphics are AMD Radeon HD 6490M 256 MB. Just completed Lion update on my MBP. All is well. Thanks for the driver!

Problems persist
 

I have a Mac Pro and the drivers do not work for displays 3 and 4. I get an image on them but nothing which is directed to those windows appears. Since I am using Nvidia Fermi boards, I am not offered the same energy use choice which the MacBook Pro's with their dual Nvidia chip offers.

So I agree - the latest driver does not work properly.

Retraction....
 

My OS had been migrated from a MacBook Pro. The driver install had been done there. I re-installed 1.7b2 directly on the MacPro and now they work fine. The clue was the observation by other posters that how the display was driven could make a difference.

Thanks

MBP late 2008
 

Installed Lion Wednesday morning. All appeared to go remarkably well, but noticed that the USB monitor no longer worked. Downloaded and installed 1.7b2. The system did NOT recover from the required reboot, but hung. Had to recover from a clone of 10.6.8 and re-install Lion. Won't try again until some light is shed on this issue.

Such is life on the bleeding edge ......

PS: It's a late 2008 MBP 5,1 with 8GB of memory. After downloading LION a second time, I deleted 1.7b2 and rebooted. There were still issues. I'm beginning to suspect that the dual GPUs (9400 and 9600) may cause problems. It's also possible that the 8GB memory is too large. LION was brought up with the 9400 GPU. Trying to switch over to the 9600 caused the system to hang - all without the DisplayLink driver.

Would be good to hear from someone with the same MBP model, but with 4MB.


Update, Friday, July 22:

I discovered, after trying many things, that if you run your late 2008 MBP in 9600 mode, all "appears" to be well. DisplayLink seems to function. A double boot may be required after you install 1.7b2.

An interesting thing happened as I was testing. I took a screen shot on the third screen, something that didn't work for me with earlier versions. When I tried to reposition the screen-shot icon, it stuck to the mouse pointer and could not be shaken off. I then "uninstalled" 1.7b2 and things returned to normal. You should be on the lookout for this potential problem. Again it might be confined to the late 2008 MBP - but we'll see ......

Nasty problems surface if you install 1.7b2 while the machine is in 9400 mode. Furthermore, even nastier things happen if, after you get things working in 9600 mode, you attempt to switch back to the 9400 GPU.

¡buena suerte!

15-inch Early 2008 MBP working!
 

I have the 15-inch Early 2008 MBP (MacBookPro4,1).

After installing the 1.7b2 driver, my external monitor is working, but I didn't have the 'rotation' option displayed. I did this: http://www.displaylink.com/support/ticket.php?id=301 and was able to rotate the display - THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!

Thanks for updating for Lion - it is greatly appreciated that my two USB-to-DVI devices will continue to function under OSX 10.7!

1.7b2 Lion - Losing the Drag & Drop-Functionality
 

Hi,

after installing the 1.7b2-Driver I lose the Drag & Drop-Functionality. Copying files is really horrible now. I have installed Lion 4 times again (including 2 clean installations without a TimeMaschine-Backup) and after I'll install the Driver, I can't drop any icon...

Sounds like I'll try to kidding you, but... that's the truth!

I attach you the Diagnostics...
Now... Back to SnowLeopard... Can't life without a second big display.

Regards
Jean

I purchased an iOmega USB2-DVI adapter yesterday, installed Lion yesterday morning. Used the 1.7b2 drivers, and they didn't work - the OS recognized the device but nothing displayed on the monitor (or a message, sleep mode, depending on the monitor).

After various tries, I removed Air Display (that lets me use an iPad as an external display) as it's similar functionality and I suspected it might be conflicting. Didn't help, but after re-installing the 1.7b2 drivers, the monitor began working.

Maybe this is useful to someone else?

This is a known issue, that we've been dealing with on the Apple Support Communities forums as well:

https://discussions.apple.com/message/15667903

It's not just limited to DisplayLink, (although that was the cause for both myself and the original poster) there are various External Display drivers affected (Like AirDisplay, DisplayPad, iDisplay, etc).

In all cases, uninstalling the driver (particularly, removing the KEXT from /S/L/E) resolves the problem.

Also, I had the same problem with the Snow Leopard DisplayLink drivers installed (I didn't remove them before installing Lion), then found the problem reoccurring once I installed the latest Lion Beta drivers.

Still, that's what Beta programs are for - to identify and resolve problems :-)

Hi,

I have exactly the same problem.

I have been using the DisplayLink drivers for over a year on Snow Leopard and all was fine until I updated to Lion and started having display problems - login screen and apps not drawing properly, although the content is there because if you click around blindly, things happen.

(the monitor on the usb adapter seemed to be working fine but the display problems affected all screens, not just the one on the usb adapter using DisplayLink).

I tried installing the 1.7b2 drivers and it didn't help at all.

Last night I did a clean install of Lion and all was fine....until I installed the DisplayLink 1.7b2 drivers and then on reboot the login screen wasn't drawn again - I could login blind and apps were not displaying either so same problem.

Uninstalling DisplayLink fixes the problem again.

Thanks,

Ian

I forgot to ask, I'd be very curious to know if you're on a MacBook or a Desktop of some description. You said "second big display", so I'm assuming Desktop.

Out of a dozen reports in the Apple forums, every single one was on a Macbook(Pro).

What we found: Put the computer to sleep, then wake again, worked for most to re-enable drag-and-drop. Give that a try and let me know if it works for you?

Hi,

I've got a 2009 17" Macbook Pro and I got the drag & drop problem and the 'lots of things not drawing' problem.

Ian

MacBookPro MID 2009 with 2x 22" and the 15" from the MBP.
I'm a programmingdrone, and I need more than one big display to code:).

HEHEHE Okay... Reinstalling now the Lion...
I was really suprised about the drag & drop bug... After 30 Years with computers, the Mac is the first bastard that was kidding me:).

BTW: Beta is beta... Finding bugs, killing bugs... I know it:)

Regards from germany
Jean

:) Works!

Thanks a lot...

Jean

BTW: Beta is beta... Finding bugs, killing bugs... I know it:)

Regards from germany
Jean[/QUOTE]

Hi Jean,

I'm afraid we may not be able to fix it, beta or not beta. Looks to be an issue in Lion, constrained to the 9400M/9600M GPUs (lucky you!).
Raised a bug with Apple and hoping on a fix in 10.7.1.

Hey all, I just got the 1.72b drivers working on Lion, at first my ViBook screen did not come up when I upgraded to Lion. When I first upgraded my ViBook USB monitor was not working but I reinstalled the 1.72b drivers and rebooted and it started working again. Try it!

It does not support rotation. I use three monitors in portrait view. Prior version I had installed supported rotation.

Try http://www.displaylink.com/support/ticket.php?id=301

Macbook (6,1) Lion - no display after sleep
 

Hi,

I upgraded to Lion, installed the beta and am quite pleased.
Unfortunately, everytime the display 'sleeps' by the system (not system sleeping), I get the last screen content on the USB driven monitor and my laptop screen and other monitor are blank/black with the mouse drawn.

Moving the mouse doesn't change the position of the drawn mouse and I ultimately have to reboot the system (thankfully an SSD so its quick ;o)

Not sure how to troubleshoot this more. Perhaps a delayed cron job to run the debug gathering app after the 'Display sleep' event?

Rotation
 

I used this: http://www.magesw.com/displayrotation/ and then all of a sudden the controls were there in the display preferences window (not pull down). I used this once, then deleted it making sure it didn't load on login and I'm still able to rotate my displays in just system preferences with the pull down, without this app, but you can keep it on your computer all the same.

I'm a little bummed that it's something DisplayLink has no way of fixing, and that we're stuck waiting for a fix via apple instead of displayLink. If we are waiting on apple I bet the issue wouldn't really be addressed since their main thing is Thunderbolt which supports multiple displays natively.

After reading all these post I still have some questions:

If I were to have problems with the new drivers on a Macbook Pro with Lion, is there any disruption to the non-DisplayLink displays, e.g., the laptop monitor or a displayport monitor? Even if the USB adapters are unplugged?

Are there any macbook's where the driver works just fine? I have a November 2009, Macbook Pro, 17" with the dual video: Nvidea GeForce 9400M with Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT. Has anyone used the driver with this hardware and has it worked?

imac 27"
 

Im having a similar problem to some. My setup is an iMac 27" with 2 identical sony displays connected and os lion. One with display link usb and the other to the display port. The computer has 2 user accounts.

Everything works fine until i click on my user name in the top right corner and select display log in window, then select the other user. Then the computer just hangs with the spinning wheel. This also happens when my screen saver activates and then my partner comes to the mac and selects their name on the login screen after they have hit a key to bring up the log in screen and then select their name.

However, when I'm using the computer in a current session for me, select the user name top right and select the other user, i can log in as them fine and toggle between the two.

The only problem is as above, if my login times out to the screen saver and then on a key press, select the other person or select login screen from my session and select the other user - CRASH. But its ok if I click on myself again. Just when you click the other user!

Everything works fine with the log in screen as long as you are not trying to log in at the same as somebody else is logged in. If no body else is logged in it doesn't seem to have any problems.

Removing the driver and just having the native and the display port displays running results in no problems at all meaning its very likely to be the driver.

Im new to this forum, although i have been a close watcher for a long time. By posting here am i logging the bug or do i need to do that somewhere else?

Thanks

Daniel

update ......

unplugging and replugging the displaykink a few times when it hangs seems to get it going again. this must be significant.

Confirmed
 

I'm also having display issues with OSX Lion and the beta drivers. I've read all the posts and have the following updates/comments. On the surface the beta appears to work; however, there are a few random display issues such as:

1) Parallels VM's show flashing ANSI characters on most of the screen rendering the VM's useless
2) Opening any image only shows a white screen (even though I can see the image in the thumbnail and I can see the image if I turn on Magnifier.
3) Opening a disk image only shows a white screen if in Show Icon mode. (Show List works fine)
4) No login screen is displayed, just the scratchy gray background

5) I too have the drag and drop issue but do not believe this is related to the drivers. It appears to be an OSX Lion issue according to the Apple support communities. The workaround for this is to put OSX to sleep.. then awake. Drag and Drop should work then.

As for the first four issues related to the beta drivers... based on the content of these forums I switch my energy saver settings from "better battery life" to "higher performance" and the issues seem to be suppressed.

Hopefully a fix can be made to re-enable the "better battery life" option.

Specs:
Early 2009 17" MBP
8GB 1067 DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT 512 MB
OSX Lion 10.7 11A511
5 Monitors (3 using the Diamond BVU195 HD USB Display Adapters)

The non-DisplayLink monitors work fine (i.e the one external connected to the mini-display port and the laptop monitor) without the beta drivers.

I believe I have hardware similar to yours and experienced the issues other mention (plus some of my own) which all seemed to be resolved by changing energy saver settings to "Higher Performance"

even with the work around (changing the performance and putting to sleep) there are still some bugs when playing video flash or silverlight. any major bug I've had has been resolved with completely uninstalling DisplayLink. I anxiously wait for an update that may fix these issues.