Malfunctioning on Ubuntu 22.04 Linux 5.17

[warent]

I booted up my computer today after presumably updating the linux kernel the other day, and the screen went black after the grub splash.

Successfully dropped into a shell and saw various errors from gnome / xorg complaining abiout evdi

When I tried to update the driver it gave me some error complaining about the kernel. I completely uninstalled the driver to then reinstall it, but the re-installation also failed.

Rebooting the machine after uninstalling evdi/displaylink fixed my machine as gdm is no longer trying to load displaylink.

$ sudo displaylink-installer uninstall
$ sudo dkms remove evdi/(version) --all -q

Not sure why this suddenly happened, all I can think is something with the latest Ubuntu / Linux made evdi angry

[jerome-diver]

Because you have to re compil and re install your evdi driver and his kernel module.

[warent]

Hey guys, friendly note I just tried to reinstall evdi on my machine after doing a system update, but it's still failing for some reason. This time I was able to capture the error:

$ sudo apt install evdi-dkms
...
Preparing to unpack .../evdi-dkms_1.9.1-1ubuntu5_all.deb ...
Unpacking evdi-dkms (1.9.1-1ubuntu5) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libevdi0.
Preparing to unpack .../libevdi0_1.9.1-1ubuntu5_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libevdi0 (1.9.1-1ubuntu5) ...
Setting up evdi-dkms (1.9.1-1ubuntu5) ...
Loading new evdi-1.9.1 DKMS files...
Building for 5.17.0-051700-generic
Building initial module for 5.17.0-051700-generic
ERROR (dkms apport): kernel package linux-headers-5.17.0-051700-generic is not supported
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.17.0-051700-generic (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.9.1/build/make.log for more information.
dpkg: error processing package evdi-dkms (--configure):
 installed evdi-dkms package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10
Setting up libevdi0 (1.9.1-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.35-0ubuntu3.1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 evdi-dkms

$ uname -r
5.17.0-051700-generic

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Release:    22.04
Codename:   jammy

[warent]

I ended up getting this working by upgrading my kernel version: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Linux 5.19.0-32-generic

And then installing via the latest driver download provided in the displaylink website https://www.synaptics.com/products/displaylink-graphics/downloads/ubuntu