Roberto De Ioris released a new alpha driver that replaces udlfb and so I tested it on my laptop machine from my previous DisplayLink on Linux blog post and it seems to work just the same.
The steps I took – and assuming you’ve done everything from the previous blog – were:
- Boot up laptop with no DisplayLink device plugged in
- Open a terminal and change directory to where I had the source code for udlfb
- sudo modprobe -r udlfb
- make clean
- Find any lingering udlfb.ko files (like ones in /usr/lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra) and delete them
- Download new alpha package and extract it then change directory to where the source for the alpha was extracted
- make && sudo make install && sudo depmod -a
- Reboot and plug in DisplayLink device
Results (using a different monitor this time and going through a different DVI -> VGA converter):
- DisplayLink device is attached to top monitor
I also tested it with the monitor from the previous DisplayLink blog post (and without a DVI -> VGA adapter) and everything was the same as last time. Also, I didn’t change any xorg.conf settings or anything like that.