Displaylink USB3 Ubuntu driver WORKS on Mint 17.2

[ski11io]

Originally Posted by baldyman

Dear Devs,
Unpacked the .run, went into the resulting folder and opened the installer sh. Walked through it manually and I now have a working Asus MB168B+.

Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaella
Kernel - 3.19.0-25-generic
Xorg - 1.15.1

cheerio,

have tried to replicate your steps as noted above.

system is atm also mint 17.2

3.19.3-031903-generic
X.Org X Server 1.15.1

the installer seems to run through with no errors when i just execute it as downloaded (did not see any difference to kernel 3.16):

sudo ./displaylink-driver-1.0.68.run 
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing DisplayLink Linux Driver 1.0.68  100%  
DisplayLink Linux Software 1.0.68 install script called: install
Distribution discovered: Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela
Installing
Configuring EVDI DKMS module
Registering EVDI kernel module with DKMS
Building EVDI kernel module with DKMS
Installing EVDI kernel module to kernel tree
EVDI kernel module built successfully
Installing x64/DisplayLinkManager
Installing libraries
Installing firmware packages
Installing license file
Adding udev rule for DisplayLink DL-3xxx/5xxx devices

but i have the same error as cdriver321. everything seems fine, plugging in the screen makes it flash with the asus logo quickly and then go to standby directly.

extracting the .run and execute it manually shows only a short output and nothing more

sudo ./displaylink-installer.sh 
DisplayLink Linux Software 1.0.68 install script called: 
Distribution discovered: Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela

lsusb shows the device as

Bus 002 Device 005: ID 17e9:ff03 DisplayLink

xrandr also does not show any other screen present.

help / hints would be awesome

[mlukaszek]

The installer script only recognises Ubuntu. In other distros, you need to install an upstart init script or a systemd service file yourself (or modify the installer script to do it for you).

See http://displaylink.org/forum/showpos...&postcount=199.

Also see http://displaylink.org/forum/showthread.php?t=63994 if you need to use systemd.

Thanks,
Michal

[cdriver321]

Originally Posted by mlukaszek

The installer script only recognises Ubuntu. In other distros, you need to install an upstart init script or a systemd service file yourself (or modify the installer script to do it for you).

See http://displaylink.org/forum/showpos...&postcount=199.

Also see http://displaylink.org/forum/showthread.php?t=63994 if you need to use systemd.

Thanks,
Michal

This was it! I thought since the script ran without error it was complete. I went throught the script as you suggested and go the driver to start on boot. In addition, I had to go to the Display settings and turn on the monitor. Thanks for the hints!