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[ubuntu] Add second DisplayLink monitor 12.04

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http://ubuntuforums.org – I installed 12.04 using wubi on an Acer notebook. With the laptop lid closed my main external monitor works fine via HDMI; the second monitor shows only a bright green color. After some googling I installed the DisplayLink drivers but this caused no changes. Next I created a file as described here...after a reboot I now have a terminal in the HDMI screen and still a bright green screen on the DisplayLink monitor. I've used Ubuntu on and off many times over the years and I'm surprised to find that this doesn't work out of the box. I read somewhere that Fedora 17 handles DisplayLink wel (Hardware)

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I tried with this problem for 2 years already. LOL, today, I install Ubuntu for I have to resolve it or I will back to stupid Windows 7.

First, I have 3 monitors. My graphic card is support dual ( ATI Radeon ), so I have no problem on extend those multi monitor on VGA and DVI.

The 3rd monitor is Displaylink USB.

DisplayLink 11 weeks 6 days ago

Hi, i have a Fedora 18 x64 and i put a DisplayLink USB 2.0 VGA, how can i configura and use it ? My DisplayLink up green light, but in monitor dont show anything.

I've got a Displaylink USB-HDMI adapter that I'd like to use to hook up an external monitor. My set up includes my laptop monitor, a monitor connected via HDMI, and this 3rd monitor through the Displaylink adapter.

I've done a ton of searching and haven't found any straight forward info.

DisplayLink 26 weeks 1 day ago

Wow, my displaylink monitor works out of the box :blink:

This is a slithly older model and Bernie said they are not supported by Fedora...

It never worked in F17... so I was using the dock as merely USB port replicator. Installed F18 onto the 'bigtop' and there was an unkown monitor popping up.

The background is a little disorted, but other than that it works fine.

I'm struggling to configure a Green House DisplayLink monitor to work with a netbook with an eGalaxTouchscreen.

how do i install the display drivers for a displaylink usb monitor?

http://libdlo.freedesktop.org/wiki/ has links to drivers and stuff but no guide for passed ubuntu 9.10 i was able to install and test the monitor with libdlo from that page so i figure that it is possible but i do not understand how to install the proper x-drivers

synaptic has no results for a search for displaylink.

Hi Guys,

Have anyone ever tried hooking up DisplayLink usb external graphics adaptor with OpenSUSE (for dual-monitor config)... This works in Windows and I heard that it is supported in Linux, jut not sure with which distro (seems to work in Ubuntu) and how...

Appreciate if anyone can give any pointers.. Cheers~!

Bernie Thompson, one of the developers working on the DisplayLink Linux support, has written in this weekend to inform us of pending improvements to the DisplayLink frame-buffer driver (udlfb) that will be present in the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. It was nearly a year ago that DisplayLink began supportin...

Hey everybody,

I'm trying since last week to use my displaylink monitor with Ubuntu. I first tried with 9.04 but wasn't able to get any good result. Then I switched to 8.10 and followed this : http://mulchman.org/blog/?p=21