DisplayLink - pflavio/macbookpro-2016-linux GitHub Wiki

DisplayLink (USB-C)

  1. Install EVDI for the kernel module yay -S evdi
  2. Install the DisplayLink driver yay -S displaylink
  3. Enable the displaylink.service druing boot systemctl enable displaylink.service
  4. Start the displaylink.service systemctl start displaylink.service
  5. Reboot reboot
  6. Check if it worked systemctl status displaylink.service

DisplayLink on kernel 6.6.6+

  1. Download the latest official DisplayLink driver displaylink-driver-5.8.0-63.33 (DisplayLink USB Graphics Software for Ubuntu) at Synaptics
  2. cd downloads
  3. unzip /home/username/Downloads/DisplayLink USB Graphics Software for Ubuntu5.8-EXE.zip
  4. Make executable
  5. Execute the start-up script (*.run) sudo ./displaylink-driver-5.8.0-63.33.run uninstall to remove the old driver reboot
  6. Unpack the driver ./displaylink-driver-5.8.0-63.33.run --noexec --keep
  7. Open the new driver folder cd displaylink-driver-5.8.0-63.33
  8. Remove the old evdi.tar.gz file rm evdi.tar.gz
  9. Download the latest EVDI driver from the official developer repository on GitHub curl -L https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi/archive/refs/heads/devel.tar.gz -o evdi.tar.gz
  10. Open the file nano ./displaylink-installer.sh and change line 39 from if ! tar xf "$TARGZ" -C "$EVDI"; then to if ! tar xf "$TARGZ" -C "$EVDI" --strip-components=1; then to enable unpacking the downloaded file during installation. Save and close the file.
  11. Install the DisplayLink driver with the updated EVDI sudo ./displaylink-installer.sh