DisplayLink on Manjaro

Question

I am having troubles setting a displaylink on my two monitors with my computer.

I am running Manjaro i3 edition with linux 52 on a ThinkPadT460.

I went trhough this set of instructions:

yay -S linux52-headers
reboot
yay -S evdi displaylink
reboot
sudo nano /usr/shar/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-displaylink.conf
Section "Device"
   Identifer "DisplayLink"
  Driver "modesetting"
  Option "Pagelip" "false"
EndSection
sudo nano /usr/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-evdidevice.conf
Section "OutputClass"
  Identifier "DisplayLink"
  MatchDriver "evdi"
  Driver "modesetting"
  Option "AccelMethod" "none"
EndSection
reboot
systemctl start displaylink
systemctl enable displaylink
reboot

The problem being that even so

xrandr --listproviders

only gives me one display.

Thank you if you try to help me, and if you have any complementary question I would be glad to answer.

DisplayLink support for the Linux environment sucks. I'm having exactly the same problem. I had the same problem on Ubuntu before. — Lucas Bustamante, May 13 '20 at 02:34

Cellcore · Answer 1 · 2019-09-17T01:18:25.623

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Try:

Identifier "DisplayLink"

Option "PageFlip" "false"

you have an i and a F missing ;)

edited Sep 17 '19 at 01:18

answered Sep 16 '19 at 23:45

Cellcore

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 16 '20 at 21:48

Best way to install displaylink on any arch like system is to install it from AUR. Currently evdi 1.8 is not supported, so make sure you will pick version 1.7.x. You will be prompted to select the evdi version, when installing displaylink via yay. If you download and compile it manually then versions 1.7.1 or 1.7.2 should work.

yay displaylink

Don't forget to check pacman as your distro might already have it's own packages that can work out of the box.

Check this wiki instructions in case it does not work: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DisplayLink

Especially check if following config was created, so that your Xorg can recognize the new display and check if displaylink.service is running:

/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-evdidevice.conf

Also check your dmesg and journalctl for any possible USB device errors.

If you still cannot make it work, check if your device is really displaylink compatible. There are devices with Sillicon motion chip that are different than displaylink technology. Also look at the evdi github issues pages and readme. You can get some good advice there: https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi/issues

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 15 '23 at 11:59

I'm using displaylink on manjaro and most of the time, it breaks because of kernel upgrade, you have to rebuild your AUR every time you upgrade the ( major version of?) kernel.
See the list of Aur package I'm using to make it working, with no additional configuration:

$ pacman -Q |grep -e "evdi" -e "displaylink"
displaylink 5.7-1
displaylink-connect 3.3.0-1
evdi-compat-git 1.14.03.r0.g19476e7-1

So install theses 3 modules and make sure to rebuild them after your kernel upgrades.
I'm using the gui of pamac manager for the "rebuild" :

DisplayLink on Manjaro

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