displaylink USB Monitor "Lenovo LT1421 wide" unuseable

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Hi,

this might be an odd problem for an “old” hardware:
I’d like to use an external USB monitor, which is correctly discovered but not usable:

[147968.926399] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd
[147969.098450] usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -32
[147969.334560] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=17e9, idProduct=03e0
[147969.334570] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[147969.334574] usb 1-1: Product: Lenovo LT1421 wide
[147969.334578] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: DisplayLink
[147969.334581] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: XXXXXXXXX
[147969.336596] [drm] vendor descriptor length:17 data:17 5f 01 00 15 05 00 01 03 00 04
[147969.422906] udl 1-1:1.0: fb2: udldrmfb frame buffer device
[147969.422914] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
[147969.422915] [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query.
[147969.422920] [drm] Initialized udl on minor 2
[147971.810680] kscreen_backend[8382]: segfault at 14 ip 00007f9265087a43 sp 00007ffcc527ee20 error 4 in KSC_XRandR.so[7f9265073000+20000]
[147973.186483] [drm] wait for urb interrupted: ffffffc2 available: 4
[147985.853510] [drm] write mode info 153
[147999.005714] xembedsniproxy[9644]: segfault at 2 ip 000000000040c06f sp 00007ffef739d720 error 4 in xembedsniproxy[400000+13000]
[148053.487169] [drm] write mode info 153

I have no evdi kernal module found for 4.4.126-48-default (on my notebook and on https://build.opensuse.org/package/binaries/home:malcolmlewis:TESTING/evdi/openSUSE_Leap_42.3 )

Does anyone use displaylink?
Can anyone give me a hint to fix this?

Thank you in advance!
Eugen

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Hi
You need to use the update repo, no display link hardware here :frowning:
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/malcolmlewis:/TESTING/openSUSE_Leap_42.3_Update/

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@malcolmlewis Thank you so much for creating this patch or whatever it is :slight_smile:

Been trying to get a USB Monitor to work Asus MB169+ with Asus ZenBook UX433FN for months now, after switching to OpenSuse Yesterday from Ubuntu distros, it now works like a charm. Again thanks Malcom :slight_smile:

Also enjoying OpenSuse unlikely to go back to Ubuntu

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Hi and welcome to the Forum :slight_smile:
Your welcome, if you have issues going forward, just start a new thread and will get you sorted :wink: