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Puavo OS is an disk image based operating system that is built from Debian GNU/Linux and is specifically designed for learning.
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Add support for Displaylink (display output via USB3 dock) #559

Closed asokero closed 3 years ago

asokero commented 4 years ago

Displaylink is a proprietary technology to enable external displays via USB3 laptop docs.

From Wikipedia: " Current generation of USB3 chips is supported by binary-only driver on Ubuntu. The Linux kernel 3.4 also contains a basic DisplayLink driver.

DisplayLink driver installer for Debian and Ubuntu based Linux distribution (Elementary OS, Mint, Kali, Deeping and et cetera) is available as part of displaylink-debian project.[31]

There was a DisplayLink-supported open source project called libdlo with the goal of bringing support to Linux and other platforms.[32] There are also unofficial reverse-engineered specifications available for older revisions of DisplayLink technology.[33]"

https://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/1104056-why-has-displaylink-not-released-source-code-for-t https://www.displaylink.com/ https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DisplayLink

asokero commented 4 years ago

To extract the archive: ./displaylink-driver-5.3.1.34.run --target displaylink-linux

asokero commented 3 years ago

Displaylink seems to work fine with devices that have hardware support for it. What the above package does I don´t know and seems like we do not need it.