I'm using fedora 24 workstation, which is currently running a 4.7 kernel. I reinstalled the package:
Code:
# dnf reinstall displaylink-1.0.335-1.x86_64.rpm
Last metadata expiration check: 0:55:17 ago on Sun Sep 4 20:02:38 2016.
Dependencies resolved.
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Reinstalling:
displaylink x86_64 1.0.335-1 @commandline 2.6 M
Transaction Summary
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Total size: 2.6 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
Reinstalling: displaylink-1.0.335-1.x86_64 1/2
warning: %post(displaylink-1.0.335-1.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 10
Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package displaylink
Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package displaylink
Erasing : displaylink-1.0.335-1.x86_64 2/2
Verifying : displaylink-1.0.335-1.x86_64 1/2
Verifying : displaylink-1.0.335-1.x86_64 2/2
Reinstalled:
displaylink.x86_64 1.0.335-1
Complete!
But unfortunately it doesn' t work. The EVDI module cannot be compiled. It looks like I have an incompatible library that provides DRM functions. Anyone who has an idea how this can be fixed?
Code:
gcc -Wp,-MD,/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/.evdi_encoder.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/6.1.1/include -I./arch/x86/include -Iarch/x86/include/generated/uapi -Iarch/x86/include/generated -Iinclude -I./arch/x86/include/uapi -Iarch/x86/include/generated/uapi -I./include/uapi -Iinclude/generated/uapi -include ./include/linux/kconfig.h -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -std=gnu89 -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -mno-avx -m64 -falign-jumps=1 -falign-loops=1 -mno-80387 -mno-fp-ret-in-387 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 -mskip-rax-setup -mtune=generic -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -funit-at-a-time -maccumulate-outgoing-args -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -DCONFIG_AS_FXSAVEQ=1 -DCONFIG_AS_SSSE3=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CRC32=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX2=1 -DCONFIG_AS_SHA1_NI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_SHA256_NI=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -O2 --param=allow-store-data-races=0 -Wframe-larger-than=2048 -fstack-protector-strong -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Wno-unused-const-variable -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -fvar-tracking-assignments -g -pg -mfentry -DCC_USING_FENTRY -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fconserve-stack -Werror=implicit-int -Werror=strict-prototypes -Werror=date-time -Werror=incompatible-pointer-types -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO -Iinclude/drm -DMODULE -DKBUILD_BASENAME='"evdi_encoder"' -DKBUILD_MODNAME='"evdi"' -c -o /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_encoder.o /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_encoder.c
/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_modeset.c:124:16: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
.fb_create = evdi_fb_user_fb_create,
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_modeset.c:124:16: note: (near initialization for ‘evdi_mode_funcs.fb_create’)
/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_modeset.c: In function ‘evdi_modeset_init’:
/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_modeset.c:148:3: error: too many arguments to function ‘drm_dev_set_unique’
drm_dev_set_unique(dev, "%s", dev_name(dev->dev));
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_modeset.c:14:0:
include/drm/drmP.h:1085:5: note: declared here
int drm_dev_set_unique(struct drm_device *dev, const char *name);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
scripts/Makefile.build:289: recipe for target '/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_modeset.o' failed
make[2]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_modeset.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_encoder.c: In function ‘evdi_encoder_init’:
/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_encoder.c:72:12: error: too few arguments to function ‘drm_encoder_init’
status = drm_encoder_init(dev, encoder, &evdi_enc_funcs, DRM_MODE_ENCODER_TMDS);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from include/drm/drmP.h:68:0,
from /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_encoder.c:13:
include/drm/drm_crtc.h:2283:5: note: declared here
int drm_encoder_init(struct drm_device *dev,
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
scripts/Makefile.build:289: recipe for target '/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_encoder.o' failed
make[2]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_encoder.o] Error 1
if [ "-pg" = "-pg" ]; then if [ /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_connector.o != "scripts/mod/empty.o" ]; then ./scripts/recordmcount "/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_connector.o"; fi; fi;
if [ "-pg" = "-pg" ]; then if [ /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_drv.o != "scripts/mod/empty.o" ]; then ./scripts/recordmcount "/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build/evdi_drv.o"; fi; fi;
Makefile:1461: recipe for target '_module_/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build' failed
make[1]: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.0.335/build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/kernels/4.7.2-201.fc24.x86_64'
Makefile:18: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2