UD-3900 Pluggable Docking Station with Ubuntu Dual-Monitors
I struggled for a bit to get my UD-3900 working under Ubuntu MATE 16.04.2. Here are the steps I took:
1) Ensure that the kernel is AT LEAST 4.8 by running uname -r
. I tried to downgrade my kernel to 4.4 after failing a few times to no avail.
2) Update your system. sudo apt-get update
and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
3) Download the DisplayLink Driver
4) If you haven’t already, install dkms sudo apt-get install dkms
5) chmod a+x displaylink-driver-xxxx
6) ./displaylink-driver-xx
7) nano /usr/share/X11/xorg.cong.d/20-displaylink.conf
Paste this into that file:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
EndSection
8) reboot
After a reboot, I had to wait 50 seconds before Ubuntu recognized the screens. If something went wrong, you can uninstall the driver sudo displaylink-installer uninstall
Use lsusb
to see if the driver is installed or not.
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