Feedback about driver v3.0 beta 2

[Vasile1337]

Last version of Mac Sierra (Beta) does not fix any of the issues.

There is another ugly problem as well. How to reproduce:

1. Lock your Mac with two monitors attached via DisplayLink
2. Drink a coffee
3. Unlock you Mac (with latest Sierra beta)

Expected result: nothing is wrong.
Actual result: windows from the monitors are moved to different random places.

Note: It looks like something is happening before logging in. When you click/keypress to see the login prompt, something happens, main Mac display starts flickering a bit.

Does anyone else have this issue?

[paultzirides]

Originally Posted by Vasile1337

Expected result: nothing is wrong.
Actual result: windows from the monitors are moved to different random places.

I believe this is a known issue with the beta drivers (wake from sleep and startup behavior is still wonky). Until the problem is resolved, I have adjusted the behavior of my Mac a little so that it no longer puts the displays to sleep, and starts the "Message" screen saver with just a single press of the spacebar as the text to display (which then basically just displays an Apple logo on your screen that shifts around periodically). I've found this to work great in almost all situations.

Instead of having the DL device connected at startup, I just wait for the login prompt, and then plug the DL device into the computer, at which point everything works swimmingly.

Hope that helps.

[Vasile1337]

Originally Posted by Vasile1337

Last version of Mac Sierra (Beta) does not fix any of the issues.

There is another ugly problem as well. How to reproduce:

1. Lock your Mac with two monitors attached via DisplayLink
2. Drink a coffee
3. Unlock you Mac (with latest Sierra beta)

Expected result: nothing is wrong.
Actual result: windows from the monitors are moved to different random places.

Note: It looks like something is happening before logging in. When you click/keypress to see the login prompt, something happens, main Mac display starts flickering a bit.

Does anyone else have this issue?

@Carlo, did DisplayTeam also work on this issue and white rectangles issues?

Thank you!

[seastwood]

Hello all,

I've been having problems with a DisplayLink screen dropping in and out every minute or so, as I reported somewhere above. (And logged with support.)

However, I might have made an unexpected breakthrough.

The dock, a Targus ACP77EUZ has DVI and DisplayPort video connections. We have all been connected by DVI since day one, but a colleague found me a DP cable to try.

I'm very happy to report that one hour in, everything is absolutely rock solid.

This is a MBP on Sierra 10.12.1, with 3.0b2 drivers.

Simon

[luckman212]

Has anyone gotten the chance to test on 10.12.3 (16D30a) ?

[Carlo]

Originally Posted by seastwood

Hello all,

I've been having problems with a DisplayLink screen dropping in and out every minute or so, as I reported somewhere above. (And logged with support.)

However, I might have made an unexpected breakthrough.

The dock, a Targus ACP77EUZ has DVI and DisplayPort video connections. We have all been connected by DVI since day one, but a colleague found me a DP cable to try.

I'm very happy to report that one hour in, everything is absolutely rock solid.

This is a MBP on Sierra 10.12.1, with 3.0b2 drivers.

Simon

Thank you Simon,

This is really useful information.
On Monday we'll try your same configuration with DVI connection. Are you all using those Philips 258B6QJEB monitors or are there any others we can try?

Regards,
Carlo

[seastwood]

Originally Posted by Carlo

Thank you Simon,

This is really useful information.
On Monday we'll try your same configuration with DVI connection. Are you all using those Philips 258B6QJEB monitors or are there any others we can try?

Regards,
Carlo

Hi Carlo,

We're all using the same monitors. Some of our users do use a different config with mirroring and their laptop closed, but the hardware is consistent: MBP - Targus - Philips.

Thanks very much,
Simon

[drbokko]

I've MBA early 2014 i7/1.7GHz on 10.12.2 + DELL D3100 w/ DL driver 3.0 b2 (just one monitor connected on the HDMI with full HD resolution)

I tried different combinations:
DL 3.0b2 + OS 10.11.6, 10.12.2

The DisplayLinkManager goes crazy every second day and uses >100-110% of the CPU, event with no windows or application running on that desktop.
Other colleagues experienced the same problem with slightly different configurations.


Best,
V.

[Vasile1337]

The "White squares" become annoying! I am not able to see when I receive a new email and I missed a call because my screen (Chrome) was WHITE. I cannot "click it" each 2 minutes.

Please fix this as soon as possible!

[BryGuy]

Originally Posted by Vasile1337

The "White squares" become annoying! I am not able to see when I receive a new email and I missed a call because my screen (Chrome) was WHITE. I cannot "click it" each 2 minutes.

Please fix this as soon as possible!

Don't forget Carlo's suggested temporary workaround for the artifacts/window paint failures:

1. Open System Preferences
2. Click on Mission Control
3. Make sure "Displays have separate Spaces" is checked

I haven't had any artifacts or paint failures since enabling this option. I don't typically prefer to run with this option selected, but it's better than the alternative with the current DisplayLink driver! Hopefully it doesn't make WindowServer super unstable for you like it seemed to for @luckman212 (it hasn't affected stability that way for me as far as I can tell).