10.7.3 incompatibility?

lfalkenburg · 02-13-2012, 03:56 PM

Are there any alternatives? Each and every USB2DVI-Adapter I found on the web uses DisplayLink Drivers!

So DisplayLink has to have gotten a lot of license fees and a lot of users should have such a problem. This can't be unresolvable!

If anybody around here, reading this knows alternatives to the DisplayLink-Driver I would be glad to here from you. THX.

SilverOne · 02-13-2012, 11:10 PM

Welcome all to display link, unfortunately this is all you'll get from here.

GodwinC · 02-14-2012, 12:19 AM

Alternatives would use Thunderbolt and daisy chain the displays. That will be the best method since USB has bandwidth limitations.. I only use my displaylink for Terminal.. when you move say a VLC window to the Displaylink side, the CPU use rate will go up rather alarmingly (not to mention the lag).

Honestly I don't see the performance issue due to Displaylink but the problem of USB protocol. The screen rotation however is their problem.

I am just glad that Thunderbolt is coming real soon.

Quote:

Originally Posted by lfalkenburg

Are there any alternatives? Each and every USB2DVI-Adapter I found on the web uses DisplayLink Drivers!

So DisplayLink has to have gotten a lot of license fees and a lot of users should have such a problem. This can't be unresolvable!

If anybody around here, reading this knows alternatives to the DisplayLink-Driver I would be glad to here from you. THX.

fhall1 · 02-14-2012, 12:18 PM

I have an early 2009 iMac 24" NVidia GT120 running a Mimo 7" USB monitor in landscape before I just upgraded from 10.6.8 to 10.7.3 over the weekend.

I notice the Display Preference shows no resolution numbers and no ability to rotate the display.

I have my monitors set to sleep after 20 minutes....yesterday after coming home from work, the Mimo didn't wake up properly, it was flashing colors/checkerboard/etc like it had just powered up and no system was driving it. So I unplugged it from the USB for a while...when I plugged it back in, the background image appeared briefly, then the windows I keep open on it appeared, then the background image changed to just an all gray screen but the app windows stayed visible....that's the way it's sitting now. Hopefully this gets fixed soon.

AppleMacGenius · 02-14-2012, 06:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fhall1

I have an early 2009 iMac 24" NVidia GT120 running a Mimo 7" USB monitor in landscape before I just upgraded from 10.6.8 to 10.7.3 over the weekend.

I notice the Display Preference shows no resolution numbers and no ability to rotate the display.

I have my monitors set to sleep after 20 minutes....yesterday after coming home from work, the Mimo didn't wake up properly, it was flashing colors/checkerboard/etc like it had just powered up and no system was driving it. So I unplugged it from the USB for a while...when I plugged it back in, the background image appeared briefly, then the windows I keep open on it appeared, then the background image changed to just an all gray screen but the app windows stayed visible....that's the way it's sitting now. Hopefully this gets fixed soon.

Option + Apple + open monitor = give you rotation option on all monitors.

jpap · 02-15-2012, 05:55 AM

For what it's worth, this happened to me today after installing the 10.7.3 combined update. :(

I'm using the Plugable UGA-2K-A (DL-195) with a HP ZR24w rotated at 90deg (1200x1920), plugged into one of the USB2 ports on my Thunderbolt display. I run the latest model MBP 13".

I rely on the second rotated monitor for software development and hope an updated driver can be made available very soon. A black screen is quite discomforting...

jpap

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02-13-2012, 03:56 PM	#1
lfalkenburg Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 5	Are there any alternatives? Each and every USB2DVI-Adapter I found on the web uses DisplayLink Drivers! So DisplayLink has to have gotten a lot of license fees and a lot of users should have such a problem. This can't be unresolvable! If anybody around here, reading this knows alternatives to the DisplayLink-Driver I would be glad to here from you. THX.

02-13-2012, 11:10 PM	#2
SilverOne Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 1	Welcome all to display link, unfortunately this is all you'll get from here.

02-14-2012, 12:18 PM	#4
fhall1 Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 32	I have an early 2009 iMac 24" NVidia GT120 running a Mimo 7" USB monitor in landscape before I just upgraded from 10.6.8 to 10.7.3 over the weekend. I notice the Display Preference shows no resolution numbers and no ability to rotate the display. I have my monitors set to sleep after 20 minutes....yesterday after coming home from work, the Mimo didn't wake up properly, it was flashing colors/checkerboard/etc like it had just powered up and no system was driving it. So I unplugged it from the USB for a while...when I plugged it back in, the background image appeared briefly, then the windows I keep open on it appeared, then the background image changed to just an all gray screen but the app windows stayed visible....that's the way it's sitting now. Hopefully this gets fixed soon.

02-15-2012, 05:55 AM	#6
jpap Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 13	For what it's worth, this happened to me today after installing the 10.7.3 combined update. :( I'm using the Plugable UGA-2K-A (DL-195) with a HP ZR24w rotated at 90deg (1200x1920), plugged into one of the USB2 ports on my Thunderbolt display. I run the latest model MBP 13". I rely on the second rotated monitor for software development and hope an updated driver can be made available very soon. A black screen is quite discomforting... jpap