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@MaKaNu

I have a dedicated 2nd display from Asus that hooks up using USB.

I've made some small changes in the aur build of this package and evdi-git and it works again for me.

The edit is not perfect due to version adjustments, but it works ;-)

(did not change the 6.0 to 6.1. Only the date, _pkgfullver, the url to the package and the md5sum)

displaylink (only parts that are relevant to the solution):

...
_releasedate=2024-05
_pkgfullver=6.1.0-17
...
source=(displaylink-driver-${pkgver}.zip::https://www.synaptics.com/sites/default/files/exe_files/${_releasedate}/DisplayLink%20USB%20Graphics%20Software%20for%20Ubuntu6.1-EXE.zip
...
sha256sums=('449815ad7f98f0dbf3d74e9787e5bd37db912c2d953b4d1f049792f2fb3b7cac'
....

And for evdi-git I removed the revert on line 50.:

git revert -n '88ef73df576aacdfff6597616a77b88f42eca4c7'

if the current git commit is giving error's, you can replace the hash at line 50 with this one:

398f065074448e9f6ed4e87443c1a7250ab16c36

@lordchaos

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/displaylink#comment-1000363

Is the 6.1 version also not building against the 6.12 series of kernel? I use the LTS kernel for the time being.

@grinchling just for curiosity, what is your setup and what are your plans for the future?

displaylink dev process is by far not synced with kernel dev. But after I need to use displaylink because it is the only way my dock supports connection, I have trouble to find a dock, which is using something else, nearly ever universal dock these days use display link, which I think is terrible, but I fear the days of the perfect IBM/Lenovo docks are over, sadly.

What happened? Hasn't been updated in a while and evdi is now also not building.... so we can do othing but wait and see.

I for one: If it does not work with HDMI/microHDMI or a similar display option I burn my money otherwise thank you very much.

borken for me as well, had to temporarily switch to an nvidia card instead, broke my system accidentally in the process (don't delete btrfs snapshot while using it 😅). Has this been reported to evdi/displaylink upstream already? Also do we know what happened?

No need to downgrade. This is the website https://www.synaptics.com/products/displaylink-graphics/downloads/ubuntu

And this is the download link https://www.synaptics.com/sites/default/files/exe_files/2024-10/DisplayLink%20USB%20Graphics%20Software%20for%20Ubuntu6.1-EXE.zip

Personally, I have learned my lesson. I will NEVER, EVER buy this dumb proprietary hardware EVER again. I thought, ok USB-C can be pretty much anything these days.... boy was I wrong.

Also please note: with the new kernel 6.12 the evdi driver fails to build, but someone opened a bug-report with the package. Looks like they need a new version/build-update to support 6.12.

Here are the steps I used to fix displaylink.

Install downgrade

yay -S downgrade

Downgrade linux and linux-headers to 6.11.9

sudo downgrade linux
sudo downgrade linux-headers

I was also able to make it work by downgrading to linux 6.11.9:

cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
sudo pacman -U file://linux-6.11.8.arch1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst file://linux-headers-6.11.8.arch1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst