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linux 4.9, xorg 1.19 and latest evdi https://picload.org/image/roidlgow/screenshotfrom2017-02-0814-34-.png

@krupan: Also take note that ddisplay link will not work with xorg 1.19. We have to downgrade xorg to make it work.

I tried unplugging and plugging back in my monitor, still froze. I have also tried rebooting my laptop, using xrandr to turn the display off and on, and stopping and starting the displaylink service, and it's still the same. Here's the last bit of journalctl -xe: Feb 07 10:05:23 bmurdock-laptop kernel: evdi: [D] evdi_painter_connect:448 (dev=-1) Connected with (null) Feb 07 10:05:23 bmurdock-laptop kernel: evdi: [D] evdi_detect:69 (dev=1) Painter is connected Feb 07 10:05:23 bmurdock-laptop kernel: evdi: [D] evdi_painter_mode_changed_notify:391 (dev=1) Notifying mode changed: 1920x1200@60; bpp 32; Feb 07 10:05:23 bmurdock-laptop kernel: evdi: [D] evdi_painter_mode_changed_notify:392 pixel format 875713112 Feb 07 10:05:23 bmurdock-laptop kernel: evdi: [D] evdi_painter_crtc_state_notify:374 (dev=1) Notifying crtc state: 0 Feb 07 10:05:23 bmurdock-laptop kernel: evdi: [D] evdi_detect:69 (dev=1) Painter is connected Feb 07 10:05:23 bmurdock-laptop kernel: evdi: [D] evdi_painter_get_edid_copy:192 (dev=1) 00 ff ff

@krupan: I've just upgraded to 4.9.7-1 as well and everything is fine for me. Just try to unplug your display link device and plug it in again. Maybe it's just a glitch.

evdi compiles and installs for me now that @truongan's patch has been applied (building against the newest kernel, 4.9.7-1-ARCH), but my displaylink monitor now just displays a frozen, static image.

@truongan Done, thank you.

OK. So I was wrong in my previous comments. That commit fix compiling agianst kernel 4.10+, to build against kernel 4.9+ you have to pull this commit https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi/commit/b7606bccc0cb9484c2845a3e556faf60ed3c0bff I've cooked up a new PKGBUILD that work fine with the latest kernel, maybe @PlusMinus can create 1.2.64-2 or something until upstream get 1.3 to work. # Maintainer: PlusMinus pkgname=evdi pkgver=1.2.64 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="A Linux® kernel module that enables management of multiple screens." arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi" license=('GPL') groups=() depends=(dkms) makedepends=() optdepends=() provides=() conflicts=() replaces=() backup=() options=() install=$pkgname.install changelog=$pkgname.Changelog source=(b7606bccc0cb9484c2845a3e556faf60ed3c0bff.tar.gz::https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi/archive/b7606bccc0cb9484c2845a3e556faf60ed3c0bff.tar.gz) noextract=() md5sums=('2f229d85de2aa5c1ba6f168a0728ec9d') build() { # We only need to build the library in this step, dmks will build the module mv evdi-b7606bccc0cb9484c2845a3e556faf60ed3c0bff $pkgname-$pkgver cd "$pkgname-$pkgver/library" make } package() { # Predfine some target folders SRCDIR="$pkgdir/usr/src/$pkgname-$pkgver" # This one is needed for dkms LIBNAME=lib$pkgname cd "$pkgname-$pkgver" install -D -m 755 library/$LIBNAME.so $pkgdir/usr/lib/$LIBNAME.so install -d $SRCDIR install -D -m 755 module/* $SRCDIR }

According to upstream log, this seems to be the commit that fix building against 4.9+ kernel possible https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi/commit/793a65a8f45bc0ca890d8fa8507c0c6c4a5860f8 Now the upstream has stated that version 1.3.43 is not stable and won't work with current display link 1.2.65, perhaps we will have to manually apply that patch.

@krupan Please read the previous comments. The versions 1.3.42 and 1.3.43 are not stable.

Looks like this is out of date, there is a 1.3.43 release listed here: https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi/releases Maybe that would build fine?