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talk:howtos:hardware:displaylink [2019/12/09 13:49 (UTC)] 23.216.55.167talk:howtos:hardware:displaylink [2020/02/03 18:14 (UTC)] (current) 104.124.60.87
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 ====== Discussion about DisplayLink support in Slackware ====== ====== Discussion about DisplayLink support in Slackware ======
 +Update February 03, 2020
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 +Slackware64-current with latest kernel (5.4.17) still working fine today.  After any kernel upgrade, I run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg and after the reboot, press e and add 3 at the end of the line starting with "linux" I login and repackage evdi-kernel and nvidia-kernel, install and reboot.  Everything works fine after that, with the three monitors on the USB 3.0 docking station
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 +Regards,
 +
 +F. Bobbio C. (a.k.a. Akileo)
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 +Update December 30, 2019
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 +Slackware64-current with latest kernel (5.4.6) and nvidia-driver and nvidia-kernel using evdi, evdi-kernel and displaylink as listed below works fine with the latest versions of nettle, xorg-server, x-org-server-xephyr, xorg-server-xnest and xorg-server-xvfb
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 +All three external monitors work "off the shelf", without even running any scripts.  I did add some lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local
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 +  # Load evdi after reboot
 +  modprobe evdi
 +  cd /usr/lib64/displaylink
 +  ./DisplayLinkManager &
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 +  # Create missing nvidia device nodes after reboot
 +  /usr/bin/nvidia-modprobe -c 0 -u
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 +More information on my "journey" with nvidia on Slackware64-current can be found here:  http://conoacum.blogspot.com/2019/12/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1050-in-slackware64.html
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 +Regards,
 +
 +F. Bobbio C. (a.k.a. Akileo)
 +
 Update December 09, 2019 Update December 09, 2019
  
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