Big Sur Beta

[steads]

Yah, we're contemplating buying a bunch of the Dell D6000 docks because it would be ideal for hoteling desks and social distancing for both mac and PC users, single cable dual monitors, ,etc. But if there are going to be issues going forward with Big Sur in the fall - its not going to make any sense to go down this path. Hopefully, this gets handled sooner than later so I can make a decision.

Hopefully we can get a definitive go, no-go on this sooner than later.

[pacmanbneNL]

I can tell you this from the tests I have done as I use the D6000 docks everything on the doc works except multiple external screens. So if your solution has only 1 external screen and the laptop screen even if they dont fix this issue in time it still works but if you have 2 or more external screens like me then it does not work. My Big Sur Test Laptop which is a 2017 MacBook Pro 13" complains at boot about DisplayLink with an error "The Application DisplayLink Manager.app cant be opened. -1" which appears to line up with Jakub's feedback earlier

[4ndyRomero]

Hi! do you know when the new driver will be developed?

[KatarzynaCzaja]

Hello,

As Big Sur has been released just 3 weeks ago, it is early Beta release it allows our developers to just to start working on the new driver therefore we do not have any dates set yet for the official release.

Best regards,
Katarzyna

[Maranthis]

Just a note to everyone who's looking for a solution, it looks like there's just a problem with the launcher.

The actual Displaylink Manager application binary does work, you can right click on it, Show Package Contents, go to Contents/MacOS and double click on the DisplayLinkUserAgent binary to run it.

[HectorLarks1]

Got a two monitor setup with thunderbolt docking station. Software app doesn’t run but if you either launch the MacOS executable inside the app it runs. Terrible load times on the executable and constant crashes and restarts of the app itself. When running the screen redraws are slow. Lost clamshell ability. Can’t consider this into production at this time. Can’t use 5.2.1 driver since last Catalina update.

Logs are encrypted or encoded and are not readable at all (why?)

Major work needs to be done for this to be ready for BigSur.

My business is to prepare my clients for what’s coming up. This is terrible news to give them at this point for Mac work at home hardware procurement plans.

[Maranthis]

As of Beta 3 the Displaylink Manager app seems to work fine.