I am running Debian 12 Bookworm (GNOME) and I have an old USB3 docking station (Plugable UD-3900) that requires the DisplayLink driver.
I have installed evdi-dkms, libevdi0, and libevdi0-dev (ver 1.12.0+dfsg-0.3) via apt. However, there is no bookworm package that provides a displaylink driver service. In fact, the evdi-dkms description warns that this is not a complete driver.
So how do I proceed? I've tried several different things, including the following:
However, these fundamentally seem to all work from the same source: displaylink-driver-6.1.0-17.run
Executing that attempts to build evdi ver 1.14.7 which will not compile on Debian 12. The log shows many errors such as:
Code:
/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.14.7/build/evdi_fb.c: In function ‘evdifb_create’:
/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.14.7/build/evdi_fb.c:408:23: error: ‘struct drm_fb_helper’ has no member named ‘info’
408 | efbdev->helper.info = info;
| ^
So clearly Debian 12 libraries are incompatible with the new version of 1.14.7.
- Is there another version of the driver package that will work?
- Has anyone gotten DisplayLink to work on Debian 12?
- Are there any other suggestions?