never mind, there was no other solution for me than to remove Intel drivers and then displaylink would install

however this was a bit of a bummer -- intel drivers did provide a bit of enhancement for power management and now that I reverted to vanilla ubuntu drivers, an old Chrome bug creeped out again (basically I had to disable GPU acceleration there)

ideally, I wish Displaylink worked with native vendor drivers too

Same thing here. Not working with i915 intel drivers on a NUC. Installing displaylink off of a live usb of ubuntu (without the intel drivers added) worked fine.