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Closed-source NVIDIA driver support #2
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Hi,
thanks so much for releasing DisplayLink driver for linux, it is a great commitment for all powerusers who need more screens to work ;)
A question, as mentioned in support, displaylink on linux doesn't work when primary GPU is managed by closed source driver from Nvidia or AMD.
As I saw in dmesg, both evdi and DisplayLinkManager work and they correctly detect attached monitor, so I guess the problem is somewhere in X subsystems like xrandr, right?
Is there any workaround or fix for that?
thanks
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[-]Nvidia support[/-][+]Closed-source NVIDIA driver support[/+]displaylink-mlukaszek commentedon Aug 28, 2015
An output related to evdi-connected monitor is added up to modesetting driver (this is what X uses to interface with evdi) including successful retrieval of the mode list. However, this output is not visible anywhere (xrandr, or other UI-backed screen management utilities) and X does not appear to use it in any way.
The same goes for an (already upstreamed to kernel) udl driver that drives USB2.0-era DisplayLink devices.
Any contributions to address this are welcome.
Merge pull request DisplayLink#2 from mikethebos/patch-1