SUCCESS: Multiple displaylink adapters on Mavericks

jd3103 · 05-19-2014, 08:35 AM

So on the 10.9.3 GM I've found that unloading the Displaylink kext tends to work for me, but it may be useful for others.

9/10 times this rebooted my machine but seemed to work fine as soon as it started back up!

This is the process I followed to get 2x external displays plus my Macbook Air (2013 "ultimate" spec) built in LCD working:

- Open Terminal
- Type in the following: sudo kextunload /Library/Extensions/DisplayLinkDriver.kext
- Confirm admin user password

After a reboot (which happens automatically - Mac OS does state that it was an unexpected shutdown so it looks like this actually initiates a kernel panic) everything works fine for me every time I do it.

Not sure this will work for everyone but it works for me so I thought I'd share :-)

For the DisplayLink guys - it seems this process bumps the kexts down the load order on the reboot (according to kextstat), to where it's loading after all of the IOkits. Previously, it was loading pre-some of the IOkits so maybe this could be a launchd-based fix?

05-19-2014, 08:35 AM	#10
jd3103 Junior Member Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 1	"Works for me" fix... So on the 10.9.3 GM I've found that unloading the Displaylink kext tends to work for me, but it may be useful for others. 9/10 times this rebooted my machine but seemed to work fine as soon as it started back up! This is the process I followed to get 2x external displays plus my Macbook Air (2013 "ultimate" spec) built in LCD working: - Open Terminal - Type in the following: sudo kextunload /Library/Extensions/DisplayLinkDriver.kext - Confirm admin user password After a reboot (which happens automatically - Mac OS does state that it was an unexpected shutdown so it looks like this actually initiates a kernel panic) everything works fine for me every time I do it. Not sure this will work for everyone but it works for me so I thought I'd share :-) For the DisplayLink guys - it seems this process bumps the kexts down the load order on the reboot (according to kextstat), to where it's loading after all of the IOkits. Previously, it was loading pre-some of the IOkits so maybe this could be a launchd-based fix? Last edited by jd3103; 05-19-2014 at 08:46 AM.