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I just tested displaylink 5.3.1.34 and evdi-1.7.0 with the following kernels plus their respective header packages:

• aur/linux-lts419 4.19.124-1
• core/linux-lts 5.4.42-1
• core/linux 5.6.14.arch1-1

All of them work.

Maybe you used an outdated evdi-4.19 1.6.4 which is probably not compatible with displaylink 5.3.1. I updated the dependency declaration to require evdi 1.7.0.

Last update of 5.3.1 is broken with 4.19 kernel. Downgrading to 5.2.14 fix the issue.

I was using pamac to fetch and build the package. Just tried using makepkg manually and it worked. I'll be off to submit a bug report...

Failed to create /root/.cache Are you running makepkg as root? Not advisable.

Neither the PKGBUILD nor the 'displaylink-driver-$pkgver.run` install script tinker with LD_PRELOAD or fakeroot. Have you set that manually?

Latest version fails to build for me... had to revert the last commit.

Adding udev rule for DisplayLink DL-3xxx/5xxx devices
Installing DLM systemd service
Extracting DisplayLink Driver Package
Failed to create /root/.cache for shader cache (Permission denied)---disabling.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
/var/tmp/pamac-build-dirthsj/displaylink/PKGBUILD: line 49: cd: displaylink-5.3.1.34: No such file or directory
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...

Output of pacman -Qi fakeroot:

Name            : fakeroot
Version         : 1.24-2
Description     : Tool for simulating superuser privileges
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://packages.debian.org/fakeroot
Licenses        : GPL
Groups          : base-devel
Provides        : None
Depends On      : glibc  filesystem  sed  util-linux  sh
Optional Deps   : None
Required By     : None
Optional For    : bauh
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 133.78 KiB
Packager        : Felix Yan <felixonmars@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Wed 13 Nov 2019 10:10:43 AM CST
Install Date    : Wed 11 Mar 2020 08:47:37 AM CDT
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : Yes
Validated By    : Signature

I've got the latest version (5.3.1.34) to install with this patch to the PKGBUILD, made with: diff -u PKGBUILD ~/local/aur/displaylink/PKGBUILD > PKGBUILD.patch

PKGBUILD.patch

--- PKGBUILD        2020-05-14 09:11:11.878768517 +1000
+++ /home/gkt/local/aur/displaylink/PKGBUILD        2020-05-12 15:12:35.834894241 +1000
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Contributor: rhabbachi

 pkgname=displaylink
-pkgver=5.2.14
+pkgver=5.3.1.34
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Linux driver for DL-6xxx, DL-5xxx, DL-41xx and DL-3x00"
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
@@ -13,18 +13,18 @@
 makedepends=('grep' 'gawk' 'wget')
 install=
 changelog="release-note.txt"
-source=(displaylink-driver-$pkgver.zip::https://www.displaylink.com/downloads/file?id=1369
+source=(displaylink-driver-$pkgver.zip::https://www.displaylink.com/downloads/file?id=1576
    udev.sh
         99-displaylink.rules
    displaylink.service
         displaylink-sleep.sh)
-md5sums=('a96ae6fc0d244ec4f9a8e9482f6c1535'
+md5sums=('8c35e6e9e809c8a8597b0ede24594e12'
          'd5de775e41af06edbd8073adc490139d'
          '20495d81c7d2540910ef86dc437b7fac'
          'c141a15e973481c7d961f8e135627ca4'
          '7cbd9ab2ac79ba66e8297689c6e5483e')

-DLAGENTS=('https::/usr/bin/wget -O %o --post-data=fileId=1369&accept_submit=Accept %u')
+DLAGENTS=('https::/usr/bin/wget -O %o --post-data=fileId=1576&accept_submit=Accept %u')

 # Update with > updpkgsums

DisplayLink 5.3 is now out. There is a little patch to use it. I used evdi-git instead of evdi because it is the only one who work with 5.6 kernel.

From ee30ba9b04df8ca219e522c49fcf9f0736c88fbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TBenoit thomas.benoit@protonmail.com Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 23:09:10 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update to version 5.3.1.34

PKGBUILD | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD index 7b551dd..e825120 100644 --- a/PKGBUILD +++ b/PKGBUILD @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ # Contributor: rhabbachi

pkgname=displaylink -pkgver=5.2.14 +pkgver=5.3.1.34 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Linux driver for DL-6xxx, DL-5xxx, DL-41xx and DL-3x00" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') @@ -13,18 +13,18 @@ depends=('evdi>=1.5.0' 'libusb>=1.0.0') makedepends=('grep' 'gawk' 'wget') install= changelog="release-note.txt" -source=(displaylink-driver-$pkgver.zip::https://www.displaylink.com/downloads/file?id=1369 +source=(displaylink-driver-$pkgver.zip::https://www.displaylink.com/downloads/file?id=1576 udev.sh 99-displaylink.rules displaylink.service displaylink-sleep.sh) -md5sums=('a96ae6fc0d244ec4f9a8e9482f6c1535' +md5sums=('8c35e6e9e809c8a8597b0ede24594e12' 'd5de775e41af06edbd8073adc490139d' '20495d81c7d2540910ef86dc437b7fac' 'c141a15e973481c7d961f8e135627ca4' '7cbd9ab2ac79ba66e8297689c6e5483e')

-DLAGENTS=('https::/usr/bin/wget -O %o --post-data=fileId=1369&accept_submit=Accept %u') +DLAGENTS=('https::/usr/bin/wget -O %o --post-data=fileId=1576&accept_submit=Accept %u')

# Update with > updpkgsums

-- 2.26.2

Hmm, I have seen a lot of issues here, but mine is not listed, so here is my experience with DisplayLink. After a system update in September 2019, it stopped refreshing the screen unless I move the mouse or have a video playing somewhere in the secondary screen. I spent many hours looking for a similar problem, and digging into system system logs. No success.

I tried various older versions of the kernel and of graphic drivers. None of them worked - I think that several outdated libraries are required. I tried to isolate them by making partial down/upgrades, but only managed to make my system unstable/unbootable.

I reverted all packages to 2019/08/20 (see "Arch Linux Archive") and could continue to use my docking station for a while. Reverting to mid-September, which is slightly less obsolete, was not working. If you are happy with an extremely outdated system, you could try this solution.

I also tried to upgrade only some packages, such as Firefox, but after a while I could not continue updating them and keep DisplayLink to work. My Thinkpad USB 3.0 Dock is now next to a dry pen - in the trash bin :-(

If you have the same issue as me, just give up.

In any case, I would like to thank all the maintainers who managed to make it work for so long :-)

Hi even with xf86-video-intel 1:2.99.917+895+gcb6bff95-1 I was still getting garbled screen under mouse. I found though in the Arch forum a fix that worked for me. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=250258