I had a working desktop system with 3 monitors connected for months without issue. Then the PCI slot on the motherboard seems to have developed an issue because multiple different AMD graphics cards will not work. Wierd errors that I don’t have time to troubleshoot more at the moment. So I bought a Startech USB3.0 to HDMI adapter because working with 2 monitors feels a bit like torture when used to 3. Its a dual boot system, so if I boot into Windows it works, so I know the USB device and HDMI cable are working fine.
So I can see the device via lsusb
[stevo@Dharma ~]$ lsusb | grep T6
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0711:5601 Magic Control Technology Corp. T6 USB Station
The DisplayLink service wouldn’t start using the standard evdi package, but changing to evdi-git was successful, so thats working.
systemctl status displaylink.service
● displaylink.service - DisplayLink Manager Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/displaylink.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/displaylink.service.d
└─displaylink-connect.conf
Active: active (running) since Sat 2024-02-03 02:55:56 CST; 11h ago
Process: 823 ExecStartPre=/sbin/modprobe evdi (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 825 ExecStartPost=/bin/sleep 1 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 870 ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/run_as_users_with_display systemctl --user --no-block start displaylink-connect.service (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 824 (DisplayLinkMana)
Tasks: 14 (limit: 76779)
Memory: 35.7M (peak: 38.0M)
CPU: 16.565s
CGroup: /system.slice/displaylink.service
└─824 /usr/lib/displaylink/DisplayLinkManager
Feb 03 02:55:55 Dharma systemd[1]: Starting DisplayLink Manager Service...
Feb 03 02:55:56 Dharma systemd[1]: Started DisplayLink Manager Service.
However, the monitor is never detected or turns on, either via inxi, xrandr, arandr etc. I don’t have an Nvidia card installed, so I don’t have Nouveau, so thats not the issue. I see a previous post that used the Hyprland-displaylink-git package, but thats now an orphaned package. I don’t see anything in dmesg and I’ve tried rebooting
[stevo@Dharma ~]$ inxi -Ga
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Dell
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20
ports: active: DP-1,HDMI-A-2 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:3e98 class-ID: 0300
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.4
driver: X: loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,intel,vesa dri: iris
gpu: i915 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-1 model: LG (GoldStar) E2742 built: 2011 res: 1920x1080
dpi: 82 gamma: 1.2 size: 598x337mm (23.54x13.27") diag: 686mm (27")
ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
Monitor-2: HDMI-A-2 model: Philips PHL 322E1 serial: 1153 built: 2020
res: 1920x1080 dpi: 70 gamma: 1.2 size: 698x393mm (27.48x15.47")
diag: 801mm (31.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris
device: 1 drv: swrast surfaceless: drv: iris wayland: drv: iris x11:
drv: iris inactive: gbm
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 23.3.5-arch1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL
GT2) device-ID: 8086:3e98 memory: 61.05 GiB unified: yes display-ID: :0.0
[stevo@Dharma ~]$ sudo dmesg | grep -E 'udl|displaylink|evdi'
[ 8.159448] evdi: [I] Initialising logging on level 4
[ 8.159451] evdi: [I] Atomic driver: yes
[stevo@Dharma ~]$ lsmod | grep video
video 77824 2 dell_wmi,i915
wmi 45056 7 video,intel_wmi_thunderbolt,dell_wmi,wmi_bmof,dell_smbios,dell_wmi_descriptor,mxm_wmi
So any ideas as to what might be the issue here?
