USB 3.0 Displaylink DL-3000 series: DL-3100 / DL-3500 / DL-3900

[tivoni]

Another verbose +1:

I run Linux as my embedded and web development environment. Was about to buy one of those cute usb 3.0 docking stations, because it's exactly what I need. Then I found out about this fiasco, the fact that DisplayLink chips do not support Linux intentionally (for whatever reasons, I don't care). Big thumbs down. Not going to buy a docking station until Linux is supported.

I hope DisplayLink or a competitor supports Linux soon.

To DisplayLink reps:
It's time to accept it, Linux is real and there are users who expect product support. Don't tell us why it can't work. We couldn't care less. Make it work so we can focus on the next big thing.
Thank you.

[gilrim]

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~airlied/dl3dev/
http://airlied.livejournal.com/
https://plus.google.com/104877287288...ts/PQ6adATfcyT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...tGNs9Dc#t=2595
"I've wasted a few months on that lately, just because I don't like them" :/

"So for some reason I decided to look at the displaylink usb3 adaptors today. (no good news).
This blog post is so I don't forget all of this when I page it out. Notes, HDCP1.0 being broken doesn't matter to this, maybe HDCPv2.0 being a bit broken could be used, but I'm not sure how!"

[Dan]

Originally Posted by tivoni

Another verbose +1:

I run Linux as my embedded and web development environment. Was about to buy one of those cute usb 3.0 docking stations, because it's exactly what I need. Then I found out about this fiasco, the fact that DisplayLink chips do not support Linux intentionally (for whatever reasons, I don't care). Big thumbs down. Not going to buy a docking station until Linux is supported.

I hope DisplayLink or a competitor supports Linux soon.

To DisplayLink reps:
It's time to accept it, Linux is real and there are users who expect product support. Don't tell us why it can't work. We couldn't care less. Make it work so we can focus on the next big thing.
Thank you.

Hey - we demoed Android and ChromeOS support at international forums. We run linux hugely internally, like all our chip development runs on linux. But since it's timewarped locked CentOS for them to use the tools they need, there's very little chance we could get our drivers to work on them.

If we saw credible support for the existing DL1x5 chips in Linux for multiscreen, then that would be some motivation. Until that, people will just moan that we haven't bent the OS to work with our chips as well as Windows did with little change to the number of complaints we get.

[ove]

The DL1x5 chips are well supported on newer Linux kernels.

I have a "Lenovo VDK8736 USB Port replicator with digital video" using the DL165 chipset and when I connect it to my Ubuntu 14.04 it just works... no configuration required.

The performance is not very good when you use a display manager like Unity or Gnome but it works.

If DisplayLink provided support for the newer chipset with USB-3 then I guess the performance problem will go away.

[gilrim]

Originally Posted by Dan

Hey - we demoed Android and ChromeOS support at international forums. We run linux hugely internally, like all our chip development runs on linux. But since it's timewarped locked CentOS for them to use the tools they need, there's very little chance we could get our drivers to work on them.

If we saw credible support for the existing DL1x5 chips in Linux for multiscreen, then that would be some motivation. Until that, people will just moan that we haven't bent the OS to work with our chips as well as Windows did with little change to the number of complaints we get.

I'm having a hard time comprehending what your trying to communicate here. Are you saying that "yes, we realize that Linux is a valuable target, but don't release specs nor proprietary drivers because Linux users whine and moan", or are you saying "our devs run ancient centos versions, and since that's the case anything we build will be deprecated"?
Please clarify your stance on this issue, as there clearly is a huge following that have your products but are prohibited from using them.
Again; reaching out to the community with some documentation would very well get you a long way, as it did with the libdlo drivers quite a few years back now. the pluggable guys even shipped embedded linux hardware using it, I can't see how this would be any different now..

[soccerties]

Like others here I was bummed to found out DisplayLink USB 3.0 devices are not support on Linux. But there is now an alternative: Displayport MST (multi-stream transport).

There is support for MST starting in kernel 3.17 (thank you David Airlie). Here's how to use MST in Ubuntu with Intel graphics card: http://askubuntu.com/a/552094

[yochaigal]

Originally Posted by soccerties

Like others here I was bummed to found out DisplayLink USB 3.0 devices are not support on Linux. But there is now an alternative: Displayport MST (multi-stream transport).

There is support for MST starting in kernel 3.17 (thank you David Airlie). Here's how to use MST in Ubuntu with Intel graphics card: http://askubuntu.com/a/552094

Will this work on laptops that don't use docks? What about mini displayport or direct to USB?

[yochaigal]

Originally Posted by yochaigal

Will this work on laptops that don't use docks? What about mini displayport or direct to USB?

You have to have displayport 1.2 for it to work - I've got a 1st-gen X1 Carbon; I can't get DisplayLink 3.0 (works great in Windows, though) and I can't get MST! I am forever stuck with one screen, it seems.

[advocat3]

Just another disappointed user chiming in.

Just ordered my XPS 13 touch 2015 developer edition and am sad to see that the USB 3.0 hubs will not support external displays.

There's a real missed opportunity here. I guess I'll be going DisplayPort? Even though I really don't want to? But what other options do we have? Not sure.

[sintesi]

I got a docking station and an adapter with Displaylink technology, because i was so stupid to assume that they would work on Linux. I was also milsled by Dell, recommending these devices with their XPS13 shipped with Linux.

Given the lack of support, the devices are totally useless for me, i can just try to sell them on eBay.

Maybe this will contribute to lower slightly the market value for this hardware. This is the only way i can express my gratitude to Displaylink for the time wasted