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Looks like this is out of date, there is a 1.3.43 release listed here: https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi/releases Maybe that would build fine?

I can confirm that it does not build against 4.9.6. Here's the error message: /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.2.64/build/evdi_connector.c: In function ‘evdi_connector_init’: /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.2.64/build/evdi_connector.c:148:24: error: ‘struct drm_mode_config’ has no member named ‘dirty_info_property’; did you mean ‘tile_property’? dev->mode_config.dirty_info_property, 1); ^ /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.2.64/build/evdi_modeset.c: In function ‘evdi_modeset_init’: /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.2.64/build/evdi_modeset.c:375:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘drm_mode_create_dirty_info_property’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] drm_mode_create_dirty_info_property(dev); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:293: /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.2.64/build/evdi_connector.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... if [ "-pg" = "-pg" ]; then if [ /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.2.64/build/evdi_encoder.o != "scripts/mod/empty.o" ]; then ./scripts/recordmcount "/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.2.64/build/evdi_encoder.o"; fi; fi; if [ "-pg" = "-pg" ]; then if [ /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.2.64/build/evdi_drv.o != "scripts/mod/empty.o" ]; then ./scripts/recordmcount "/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.2.64/build/evdi_drv.o"; fi; fi; cc1: some warnings being treated as errors make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:293: /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.2.64/build/evdi_modeset.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [Makefile:1490: _module_/var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.2.64/build] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/lib/modules/4.9.6-1-ARCH/build' make: *** [Makefile:21: all] Error 2

Doesn't seem to work with the latest 4.9.6 kernel updated yesterday

You are right, of course, but the person flagging this out of date could have checked as well.