#Displaylink usb graphics software for linux green screen driver#
This is a driver for DisplayLink USB 2.0 era graphics chips.ĭisplayLink chips provide simple hline/blit operations with some compression, pairing that with a hardware framebuffer (16MB) on the other end of the USB wire. and thousands to those who have just given up. If you search through the forums and you see all the UNSOLVED problems for "xinerama" "nvidia" "dual monitor" or "multi-monitor," it adds up to hundreds of hours between the complainers.
It's way, way past time for Ubuntu (or someone in the Linux world) to put this to bed. I'd put a few hundred bucks personally toward solving this problem.
Is there a bounty I can offer money to? My TIME is worth more than what I want to sacrifice to nf. I can run 4 from a single computer running Windows. With Synergy, I usually end up running 4-5 screens from a single mouse and keyboard. I have two Diamond DisplayLink BVU 195's that are awesome for expanded screen real-estate. We are lightyears away from being able to pop a USB device into a port, have Ubuntu recognize that, and then provision an "extended desktop" (new screen, whatevah) where you can start using it in just a few seconds. and then think about something like DisplayLink. But after two hours of trial-and-error to do something that takes SECONDS in any other serious OS, I'm left to wonder: WHY? WTF? Let's face it: Windows and Mac can do multi-monitor desktops in a snap. The problem is that multi-monitor support in Linux simply blows. This machine is fast enough to put all my Win7 stuff in a VirtualBox and save me the 2GB RAM of "overhead" when I don't need it.
It supports UEFI and I'm messing with that a bit for lightning-fast boot times.īut, ultimately, I use 4-5 monitors at a time on Windows 7. It has an nVidia Quadro card for built-in OpenGL support. I'm trying 11.04 64-bit beta on a new HP 8540w. WHY is it so hard to set up multi-monitors? I would rate myself as a senior IT professional. I use it on all my servers I even use it for Asterisk (because I think CentOS is clunky).
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