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Hi,

I’ve been trying to install the displaylink driver in Manjaro (besides getting it to work which is a different story). Just the installation of the 5.3.1.34 version. It keeps failing with the following log:

==> Retrieving sources...
   -> Found displaylink-driver-5.3.1.34.zip
   -> Found udev.sh
   -> Found 99-displaylink.rules
   -> Found displaylink.service
   -> Found displaylink-sleep.sh
 ==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
     displaylink-driver-5.3.1.34.zip ... Passed
     udev.sh ... Passed
     99-displaylink.rules ... Passed
     displaylink.service ... Passed
     displaylink-sleep.sh ... Passed
 ==> Removing existing $srcdir/ directory...
 ==> Extracting sources...
   -> Extracting displaylink-driver-5.3.1.34.zip with bsdtar
 ==> Removing existing $pkgdir/ directory...
 ==> Entering fakeroot environment...
 ==> Starting package()...
 Adding udev rule for DisplayLink DL-3xxx/5xxx devices
 Installing DLM systemd service
 Extracting DisplayLink Driver Package
 # Failed to parse arguments: Unknown option -title
 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
     Aborting...

I’m using the 5.9.11-3 kernel, have Gnome, have the headers installed, it chooses the 1.7.3 evdi package… Not sure what else is/could be relevant.

Does it work for others (on a fresh-ish install)?

The latest Release of xorg-xserver 1.20.10-1 has fixed the crashing for me. No need to downgrade or pinning the xorg packages to 1.20.8-3 anymore.

I think the pinned comment still holds. Recently I did updated my Arch again, and when using cinnamon or mate desktops, I can make it work with the comment from sickcodes on 2020-10-15 23:26 on the AUR evdi page (i.e. removes the udev rules.d file + disable displaylink service, then reboot, then start the displaylink service. I then have a flickering mouse pointer which is quite distracting.

When using Gnome Desktop, I don't need to do any of that.

Downloading xorg-server-git or downgrading xorg-server didn't do anything for me - xorg still crashes whenever I try to start with cinnamon or mate.

Revision: 1) downgrading xorg-server even further (to 1.19.6+13+gd0d1a694f-2) did resolve the xorg crashing issue; i previously only downgraded to 1.20.4. I now have the most up-to-date evdi and displaylink installed and I run it on the (current) LTS kernel. 2) The reason why GDM started is because it doesn't use Xorg-server, but Wayland (I didn't know that yet...)

Does the pinned comment still hold?

Is Displaylink still not compatible with evdi-1.8?

evdi-git now is at v1.8.0.r7

If the constrain still hold, I guess we need really need the evdi-1.7 package...

Bug report for xorg-xserver above 1.20.8-3 submitted : https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1088

Depends on what your error messages say? The folks at xorg (=freedesktop) probably will be more helpful with debugging. You can also post a link here to he bugreport once you have created it.

I can consistently repeat the breakages. In fact I have a local script to automatically revert all Xorg packages back to 1.20.8-3 versions because of this.

Whe you say upstream, do you mean 'displaylink' upstream or 'xorg' ?

@kaipee2 as I wrote in August and September: That is not generally true. I can not reproduce this on my system and others report success too. That said, if you find the reason, why Xorg > 1.20.8-3 does not work for you and several other (but not all!) users, please let us and upstream know. You can also report the problem without a solution. Please provide crashlogs then.

@dummys the latest versions of displaylink+evdi do not work with Xorg packages above version 1.20.8-3

yes you are right. I had a md5sum binary in /usr/local/bin, after removing it I can install the package. Still to understand what is bringing the xorg crash, but no time for now.