dsiplaylink for kernel 6 ?

[alucard]

Same issue here, kernel 6.02 is not supported! Running PopOS as well, which recently upgraded to v6 kernel. I've applied the same workaround as @ice10001, rollback to v5[.9] kernel.

I've attached the install log from /var/log/displaylink, clearly showing the evdi dkms is failing.

[linux_person]

upgrade to Kernel 6 broke my display-link too.
rolled back to old kernel for now.
any word from Synaptic about kernel 6 support?

[alucard]

Following up, probably it is the same issue as already addressed here: https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi/issues/376

However, there's no official evdi release that includes this fix, nor does the ubuntu bundle (the .run pacakge) include it.

[alucard]

Following up again, I've tried building evdi from the github develop branch and I can confirm this fixes it.

1. Checkout the repo
2. Execute make
3. Replace the files from the module directory to the /usr/src/evdi-1.12.0 directory

This worked for me directly on the new kernel, kicking my gnome session directly at the end of the copy. Bit messy, there are probably better ways of doing this (I'm not an expert in dkms).
Note that I already had dkms working for evdi working on the 5.19 kernel (which is still fully installed).

[kellehorreur]

A little more verbose version of alucard's solution: (Tested on PopOs 22.04 and kernel 6.0.2 and 6.0.3)

Got to a random temporary folder, clone and build from source:

cd <temp-folder>
git clone git@github.com:DisplayLink/evdi.git
cd evdi
make

List all installed versions of evdi: ("evdi/<version>" is what you are looking for)

dkms status

Uninstall current version of evdi (if the latest version (currently 1.12.0) is not installed at all, this step is unnecessary), if you want you can uninstall earlier versions, too

sudo dkms remove -m evdi -v 1.12.0 --all

Create the dkms source folder and copy the newly built files into the dkms folder:

sudo mkdir /usr/src/evdi-1.12.0/
cd /usr/src/evdi-1.12.0/
sudo cp <temp-folder>/evdi/module/* .

Register the dkms module:

sudo dkms add -m evdi -v 1.12.0
sudo dkms build -m evdi -v 1.12.0
sudo dkms install -m evdi -v 1.12.0

If after a reboot, it does not just start working, re-run ubuntu installer (from and following the instructions https://www.synaptics.com/products/d...wnloads/ubuntu):

....
sudo ./displaylink-driver-5.6.1-59.184.run

[displaysadness]

The version of evdi-dkms in both Debian and Ubuntu now include the patch to make it compile on the 6.x series kernel.

[linux_person]

@kellehorreur thanks for these instructions! it worked for me on Pop!_OS 22.04 kernel 6.0.3

[miguel44444]

Originally Posted by kellehorreur

A little more verbose version of alucard's solution: (Tested on PopOs 22.04 and kernel 6.0.2 and 6.0.3)

Got to a random temporary folder, clone and build from source:

cd <temp-folder>
git clone git@github.com:DisplayLink/evdi.git
cd evdi
make

List all installed versions of evdi: ("evdi/<version>" is what you are looking for)

dkms status

Uninstall current version of evdi (if the latest version (currently 1.12.0 is not installed at all, this step is unnecessary)), if you want you can uninstall earlier versions, too

sudo dkms remove -m evdi -v 1.12.0 --all

Create the dkms source folder and copy the newly built files into the dkms folder:

sudo mkdir /usr/src/evdi-1.12.0/
cd /usr/src/evdi-1.12.0/
sudo cp <temp-folder>/evdi/module/* .

Register the dkms module:

sudo dkms add -m evdi -v 1.12.0
sudo dkms build -m evdi -v 1.12.0
sudo dkms install -m evdi -v 1.12.0

If after a reboot, it does not just start working, re-run ubuntu installer (from and following the instructions https://www.synaptics.com/products/d...wnloads/ubuntu):

....
sudo ./displaylink-driver-5.6.1-59.184.run

These instructions worked for me on Fedora 36 with kernel version 6.0.5-200. Thank you so much for the help!

[c_lanza]

Hello @kellehorreur, first of all, thank you very much for doing the verbose explanation, for a not so advanced linux user like me, this makes is super easy to follow and understand.

However I am facing a challenge that you may be able to explain/solve.
I am using Fedora and my asus Zenscreen was running perfectly on kernel 5.16. however, I just updated to Fedora 37 running kernel 6.0.12-300.fc37.x86_64 and the problem I am facing is that when I try to compile evdi, it always comes back with an error saying that it couldn't find libdrm/drm.h

evdi_lib.c:6:10: fatal error: libdrm/drm.h: No such file or directory
    6 | #include <libdrm/drm.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I checked and the latest version libdrm is installed but I guess it just cant find the right path??

would you have any idea on how to fix this?

cheers, and thank you very very much in advanced

Originally Posted by kellehorreur

A little more verbose version of alucard's solution: (Tested on PopOs 22.04 and kernel 6.0.2 and 6.0.3)

Got to a random temporary folder, clone and build from source:

cd <temp-folder>
git clone git@github.com:DisplayLink/evdi.git
cd evdi
make

List all installed versions of evdi: ("evdi/<version>" is what you are looking for)

dkms status

Uninstall current version of evdi (if the latest version (currently 1.12.0) is not installed at all, this step is unnecessary), if you want you can uninstall earlier versions, too

sudo dkms remove -m evdi -v 1.12.0 --all

Create the dkms source folder and copy the newly built files into the dkms folder:

sudo mkdir /usr/src/evdi-1.12.0/
cd /usr/src/evdi-1.12.0/
sudo cp <temp-folder>/evdi/module/* .

Register the dkms module:

sudo dkms add -m evdi -v 1.12.0
sudo dkms build -m evdi -v 1.12.0
sudo dkms install -m evdi -v 1.12.0

If after a reboot, it does not just start working, re-run ubuntu installer (from and following the instructions https://www.synaptics.com/products/d...wnloads/ubuntu):

....
sudo ./displaylink-driver-5.6.1-59.184.run

[c_lanza]

Well, I kept digging around online and after a lot of trials I found this response from somebody on reddit:

This post

cd ~/Downlaods 
git clone https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi
cd evdi-devel/evdi/module/
cp * /usr/src/evdi-1.12.0/
sudo dnf install dkms
sudo dkms build -m evdi -v 1.12.0 --force
sudo dkms install -m evdi -v 1.12.0
sudo reboot

and it worked like a charm. didnt even have to reboot and my Asus ZenScreen came back to life.
and in case somebody is wondering I am using Fedora 37
Linux fedora 6.0.13-300.fc37.x86_64

hope this helps somebody else.

cheers!