Displaylink ceases to work in 10.13.4

[phrogg]

Just an FYI that a reboot switched which monitor it was cloning...but when I go to sleep it swaps to the other one. So there must be a setting somewhere I can access. Still hope to hear the answer.

[Alanant]

No change in 10.13.5 Beta 1.

[tommiy]

Originally Posted by Alanant

No change in 10.13.5 Beta 1.

A week into this and no news from displaylink as to what is happening. As its been months since the beta and it eas not fixed I think we all now know that the answer to this is probably the end of displaylink boxes. Looks like time to search for some thing else to use instead of display link or ditch the mac for windows instead.

[DLguy]

its Apple and displayLink that need to work together. Apple doesn't really care about other products that are compatible or not with their products. I think we all need to look for alternate solutions. DisplayLink made their money from us and now its time to move on.

[azink]

Originally Posted by DLguy

its Apple and displayLink that need to work together. Apple doesn't really care about other products that are compatible or not with their products. I think we all need to look for alternate solutions. DisplayLink made their money from us and now its time to move on.

Does anyone know any alternate products for USB video? I don't think this will be resolved quickly (if ever) but all USB external monitor solutions seem to be using DisplayLink...

[tommiy]

Originally Posted by azink

Does anyone know any alternate products for USB video? I don't think this will be resolved quickly (if ever) but all USB external monitor solutions seem to be using DisplayLink...

Think your going to need to go with thunderbolt as apple obviously see's USB is only for things like data transfer i suppose.

Its a shame but the lack of any response from DisplayLink on any progress at all probably means there is none.

[tommiy]

Originally Posted by tommiy

Think your going to need to go with thunderbolt as apple obviously see's USB is only for things like data transfer i suppose.

Its a shame but the lack of any response from DisplayLink on any progress at all probably means there is none.

Someone earlier asked about solutions that do not use DisplayLink. Plugable have published their solution for Macs now at the link below. As you guess no displaylink in any of these options. Seems time to move on. I'm off to try and buy one of these and ditch my current dock.

https://plugable.com/2018/04/04/alte...-ultc4k-docks/

[anotherandrew]

Originally Posted by azink

Does anyone know any alternate products for USB video? I don't think this will be resolved quickly (if ever) but all USB external monitor solutions seem to be using DisplayLink...

MCT makes similar but inferior products. I have one (within a J5Create USB dock) but I do not recommend them. Since upgrading to High Sierra their driver has consumed high amounts of CPU and neither J5Create nor MCT seem willing to give the matter serious attention. Even when it was working prior to High Sierra it was a rather poor solution.

I have numerous DisplayLink adapters (USB2 and USB3) and they're all working very well on this 2012 11" Air (running 10.13.3) and I'm confident that DisplayLink will have this resolved as quickly as possible.