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I've modified the PKGBUILD to use the new version of upstream displaylink driver. After installing evdi-git and the updated package, my displaylink works like a charm.

Just use --editmenu and apply the diff below:

7,9c7,9
< pkgver=5.6
< _releasedate=2022-05
< _pkgfullver=5.6.0-59.176
---
> pkgver=5.6.1
> _releasedate=2022-08
> _pkgfullver=5.6.1-59.184
18c18
< changelog="displaylink-release-notes-${pkgver}.txt"
---
> #changelog="displaylink-release-notes-${pkgver}.txt"
20c20
<         displaylink-release-notes-${pkgver}.txt
---
> #        displaylink-release-notes-${pkgver}.txt
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<       displaylink.service 
---
>         displaylink.service 
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< sha256sums=('ca15c82af195f50acc670a6b00b29d6709731e095113619330d45692f5243aed'
<             '529d8344f5cc1117388ddf2215c744baa920c7df4dbf40c3e5ddf2b4e82ba8e3'
---
> sha256sums=('89279748a9e276073ddfff7e949f2b92e30dc19f29a34c40ffcd3356c6d730c2'
> #            '1aae2005e7719e91179ed52ba85b11b35120c05116c94c4aa384394c4f6e8043'

I have commented out the changelog in order not to be bothered by the lack of an updated file, although I updated it's sha256sum. Note that the release notes file downloaded from the upstream page differs from the one included in the zip archive. The sum is calculated out of the one available to download directly from the site.

Release notes of Displaylink 5.6.1 mention

Extensible Virtual Display Interface version included: v1.12.0 (ae5b3d0)

So updating the package should fix this.

However, with evdi 1.11 currently not being available as package, this would make DisplayLink no longer installable.

Still, the upgrade scenario needs to be covered. Evdi is released to Github a good while before the driver, so this AUR will break on each Evdi minor version increase without a maximum version defined.

Could you please set the maximum version of evdi<1.12.0

+1, as DisplayLink 5.6 is not working with evdi 1.12.

However, with evdi 1.11 currently not being available as package, this would make DisplayLink no longer installable.

An idea to solve this could be to create and maintain a package "evdi-displaylink", which always builds the latest version of evdi which works with the current displaylink package. Then displaylink shoul depend on that package.

Could you please set the maximum version of evdi<1.12.0

The driver is only compatible with a specific minor version of evdi.

Hi there,

I cannot connect to displays through my displaylink docking-station since the update to evdi 1.12

Kernel: 5.10.131

Did anyone else experience problems as well?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2038687#p2038687

pkgver=5.6
_releasedate=2022-05
_pkgfullver=5.6.0-59.176

Add and rename the release notes.txt to your package folder displaylink-release-notes-5.6.txt

Recalculate the checksums with makepkg -g and fix PKGBUILD

@gipert, I'm using the combination displaylink (5.5) and evdi (1.10.1) together with wayland compositor. Here 2 Screens attachted to the HP USB-C/A Universal Dock G2.

Still some unspecific issues if I'm connect/disconnect usb-c while the laptop screen is not opened. But i can "reset" it, if I'm detach usb-c displaylink and screen open laptop screen. Then attach the dock again. But i have no FPS drops, correct DisplayFrequency and Resolution. Standby/Wakeup is no problem. So my personal problems fixed so far.

I played around with scaling factors, here is some trouble too. But it works if i got it finally setup. (In my case, i don't use scaling)

To be fair, even with windows i do have have trouble in some cases with the dock - so firmware/driver quality is not the best...

Did you update the firmware of the dock?