DisplayLink Won't Install on Ubuntu 17.10

Balt · 02-19-2018, 04:00 PM

So after a bit of poking around I discovered something in both Ubuntu 17.10 and Ubuntu Budgie 17.10. If you open 'Display' the external monitors don't show up. What I had to do was hit Fn+F8 on my laptop's keyboard (a Dell) to push the extend the display when connected to the dock. Once I did that one monitor came to life and the second monitor was still dark but both showed up in 'displays'. A little tweaking there and hitting 'Apply' made both external displays work. Weird that they weren't automatically extended to (like every other OS we use). Oh well. Hope this helps some folks.

02-19-2018, 04:00 PM	#6
Balt Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2018 Posts: 2	So after a bit of poking around I discovered something in both Ubuntu 17.10 and Ubuntu Budgie 17.10. If you open 'Display' the external monitors don't show up. What I had to do was hit Fn+F8 on my laptop's keyboard (a Dell) to push the extend the display when connected to the dock. Once I did that one monitor came to life and the second monitor was still dark but both showed up in 'displays'. A little tweaking there and hitting 'Apply' made both external displays work. Weird that they weren't automatically extended to (like every other OS we use). Oh well. Hope this helps some folks.