15" core i7 displaylink woes

mastahype · 10-24-2010, 12:19 AM

Some of you are suffering the same fate a few of us did with the sleep issue in terms of needing to restart the driver. The latest b3 driver has all but eliminated that issue for me (just minor, infrequent issues). You can use keyboard shortcuts via third-party apps or the active/hot corners with expose. The former can run custom commands (like scripts to restart the driver/server). The latter can put the display to sleep (which can also be done with the former).

I use BetterTouchTool with keyboard shortcuts to either sleep my display or run commands to stop/restart displaylink driver+server. I don't think a popup is good for doing this. I used sleepwatcher to automatically do that when the MBP slept and woke.

maidelba · 10-26-2010, 04:57 PM

I'm a sysadmin for a company and have a bunch of these displaylink adapters for our Mac's. On my machine and someone else's machine we've seen this same issue. If I boot up without the adapter connected, I can't login and only see a blurred screen with horizontal lines. I have a new Core i7 mac laptop.
This is really bad because now I can't even use the adapter because I have to uninstall the software each time. Please let me know when this has been fixed, it's a major issue for us!

Thanks!
Mitch
email: maidelba@gmail.com

Bevan · 10-27-2010, 08:27 PM

I tried to summarize the status, cause, workarounds and fixes for this issue over here.

10-26-2010, 04:57 PM	#2
maidelba Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 1	Same issue! I'm a sysadmin for a company and have a bunch of these displaylink adapters for our Mac's. On my machine and someone else's machine we've seen this same issue. If I boot up without the adapter connected, I can't login and only see a blurred screen with horizontal lines. I have a new Core i7 mac laptop. This is really bad because now I can't even use the adapter because I have to uninstall the software each time. Please let me know when this has been fixed, it's a major issue for us! Thanks! Mitch email: maidelba@gmail.com

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10-24-2010, 12:19 AM	#1
mastahype Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 27	Some of you are suffering the same fate a few of us did with the sleep issue in terms of needing to restart the driver. The latest b3 driver has all but eliminated that issue for me (just minor, infrequent issues). You can use keyboard shortcuts via third-party apps or the active/hot corners with expose. The former can run custom commands (like scripts to restart the driver/server). The latter can put the display to sleep (which can also be done with the former). I use BetterTouchTool with keyboard shortcuts to either sleep my display or run commands to stop/restart displaylink driver+server. I don't think a popup is good for doing this. I used sleepwatcher to automatically do that when the MBP slept and woke.

10-27-2010, 08:27 PM	#3
Bevan Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New Zealand Posts: 3	I tried to summarize the status, cause, workarounds and fixes for this issue over here.