ThinkPad USB 3.0 Dock on Debian Jessie

aol71 · 08-06-2015, 12:01 PM

Hi all,

It looks like everything is in place to have the dock working on my Debian however, xrandr finds nothing and the encrypted logs in /var/log/displaylink are little use...

DisplayLinkManager is running, kernel mod is there and firmware is also there.

Anyone got the dock working with debian?

Cheers,
Andrea

mlukaszek · 08-06-2015, 02:25 PM

If you zip the files from /var/log/displaylink directory and attach here, we could see what can be wrong. Thanks.

Michal

aol71 · 08-06-2015, 02:47 PM

Here they are, thanks a lot Michal

aol71 · 08-14-2015, 09:10 AM

Any chance to get some info from the logs?

mlukaszek · 08-17-2015, 07:53 AM

Hi,

There's nothing in the logs that would explain the situation I'm afraid. We may need more verbose logging from DisplayLink Manager - we are currently preparing a customer support tool which could be used for increasing the verbosity.

Meanwhile, can you try increasing the verbosity of evdi logs to maximum by running this as root:

Code:

echo 6 > /sys/devices/evdi/loglevel

Ideally, before plugging in a dock to USB.

You can also increase the log level of evdi permanently by creating a

Code:

/etc/modprobe.d/evdi.conf

file with the following in it:

Code:

options evdi initial_loglevel=6

Maybe this would shed some more light.

Thanks,
Michal

aol71 · 09-01-2015, 02:55 PM

Hi Michal,

Here the logs with loglevel 6 from a fresh reboot.
Thank you for your help

Cheers,
Andrea

aol71 · 09-02-2015, 10:49 AM

As I replaced the docking station all began to work beautifully.
Please feel free to close the thread.
Thanks,
Andrea

08-17-2015, 07:53 AM	#5
mlukaszek Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 386	Hi, There's nothing in the logs that would explain the situation I'm afraid. We may need more verbose logging from DisplayLink Manager - we are currently preparing a customer support tool which could be used for increasing the verbosity. Meanwhile, can you try increasing the verbosity of evdi logs to maximum by running this as root: Code: echo 6 > /sys/devices/evdi/loglevel Ideally, before plugging in a dock to USB. You can also increase the log level of evdi permanently by creating a Code: /etc/modprobe.d/evdi.conf file with the following in it: Code: options evdi initial_loglevel=6 Maybe this would shed some more light. Thanks, Michal

08-06-2015, 02:25 PM	#2
mlukaszek Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 386	If you zip the files from /var/log/displaylink directory and attach here, we could see what can be wrong. Thanks. Michal

08-14-2015, 09:10 AM	#4
aol71 Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2015 Posts: 5	Any chance to get some info from the logs?

09-02-2015, 10:49 AM	#7
aol71 Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2015 Posts: 5	As I replaced the docking station all began to work beautifully. Please feel free to close the thread. Thanks, Andrea