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

[manghoti]

Sad to see no progress on more modern drivers.

I don't think I fully understand the hold up here. Go reach out to the xorg developers for help, put some feelers out in the linux kernel mailing list asking for help to develop an open source driver.

I bought the targus USB 3 Docking station to test it out, sad to see there hasn't been any work from display link. I'm not so miffed about that though because I'm just going to return it for a refund.

I can't imagin my use case is so rare, frankly. I'm a developer, my company just bought us laptops as workstations, and it would be great if we could dock them. How uncommon can that demographic possibly be?

[ulysse68]

Hi!

Could you please allow GNU/Linux users to use DisplayLink? Or could you publish the complete specs so that the community can build the required drivers on them?

Thanks!

[gilrim]

Got a reply, this is my attempt for translating it (oh, the irony of them linking a fbdev support page):

"I checked status with my supervisor but unfortunately Displaylinks says that Linux on have "experimental support" (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DisplayLink) and thus aren't supported under linux by Dell. This means that there isn't anything I can do about the issue, but you can contact sales at 67 11 68 00 if you'd like to return the unit."

Sjekket status med min supervisor men dessvärre så seier DisplayLink at Linux har kun "expermintal support" (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DisplayLink) og er ikke stöttet under Linux av Dell. Dette mener at det finns ikke noen som jeg kan gjöre åt saken men du kan kontakte Salg på 67 11 68 00 om du vil hevde kjöpet.

Mvh,
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Support Technician
DELL | ProSupport Norway

[Mechatism]

Originally Posted by tivoni

Another verbose +1:
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.

It seems DisplayLink has little desire to keep customers happy ; requests for linux support were made back in 2012! Does anyone at this company actually read these posts? Obviously they get enough revenue from WhineDoze users but with 8.x turning every PC into a phone (with all their limitations) maybe more people will desert that behemoth.