Debian 8.1 driver install

[jossylopes]

Originally Posted by guerrierk

To help users in solving problem about the displaylink, some tests could be done :

# lsmod | grep evdi

It must return some lines with evdi module

# dmesg | grep -i display

It must not return any error.

Finally these two command should display services as active

# systemctl status display-manager.service
# systemctl status displaylink.service

If all of these command are correct, your device should be correctly detected and usable.

;-)

[1] - The output of '# systemctl status display-manager.service' is fine::
● gdm.service - GNOME Display Manager
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/gdm.service; enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2015-11-25 15:20:26 JST; 9min ago
Process: 760 ExecStartPre=/usr/share/gdm/generate-config (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 750 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c [ "$(cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager 2>/dev/null)" = "/usr/sbin/gdm3" ] (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 767 (gdm3)
CGroup: /system.slice/gdm.service
├─767 /usr/sbin/gdm3
└─783 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -novtswitch -background none -noreset -verbose 3 -auth /var/run/gdm3/auth-for-Debian-gdm-x16IbT...

But,
[2] - The output of '# systemctl status displaylink.service' returns failure::
● displaylink.service - DisplayLink Manager Service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/displaylink.service; enabled)
Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2015-11-25 15:30:17 JST; 1s ago
Process: 2538 ExecStart=/usr/lib/displaylink/DisplayLinkManager (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
Process: 2536 ExecStartPre=/sbin/modprobe evdi (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 2538 (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)

Even after I tried to activate the service with::
'# systemctl restart displaylink.service'

please, share any lights on how I may get around this issue.

[fooctrl]

For those of you interested, I made a DisplayLink driver installer for Debian.

I created separated forum thread: Debian (Jessie/Stretch/Sid) installer

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displaylink-debian

Tool which allows you to seamlessly install and uninstall DisplayLink drivers on Debian GNU/Linux.

Installer is available on Github.

Supported platforms are:

• Debian: Jessie/Stretch/Sid regardless of which kernel version you’re using.

displaylink-debian licence is GPLv3 and if you’d like to add any changes or to extend it to any other distribution then Debian, be my guest!

Please let me know if you have any additional questions and/or comments.