If you are using KMS (kernel mode setting) with the new kernels it must be disabled for the display link devices to work. As it removes all video functionality to the kernel out of the xf86 drivers. This is usually done by passing 'nomodeset' to the kernel at boot.<br> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:50 AM, responder.member <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:responder.member@gmail.com">responder.member@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2">hi all,</font></span></div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2">I was tried to use my device link device under the latest ubuntu 9.10 (64 bit) on my laptop (Acer 4736G with NVIDIA G105M) with no luck.</font></span></div> <div><span></span><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2">My "Buffalo GX-DVI/U2" can be detceted correctly when I plugged it into the system.</font></span></div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2">The screen will become green as mentioned by Bernie.</font></span></div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2">Then I followed the instruction of</font></span></div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><a href="http://mulchman.org/blog/?p=21" target="_blank">http://mulchman.org/blog/?p=21</a></font></span></div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2">&</font></span></div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><a href="http://libdlo.freedesktop.org/wiki/Ubuntu9.04" target="_blank">http://libdlo.freedesktop.org/wiki/Ubuntu9.04</a></font></span></div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2">The xf86-video-displaylink </font></span><span><font face="新細明體" size="2">can be compiled correctly.</font></span></div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2">However, I found the following errors on Xorg.0.log</font></span></div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2">=====</font></span></div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2">(II) LoadModule: "displaylink"<br>(II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//displaylink_drv.so<br>(II) Module displaylink: vendor="X.Org Foundation"<br> compiled for 1.6.4, module version = 0.0.1<br> ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 5.0<br>(II) DL: driver for : displaylink<br>(WW) Falling back to old probe method for displaylink</font></span></div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><span><font face="新細明體" size="2">=====</font></span></font></span></div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><span></span></font></span> </div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><span>The following is my xorg.conf. (w/ or w/o Xinerama didn't help.)</span></font></span></div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><span>=====</span></font></span></div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><span>Section "Screen"<br> Identifier "Default Screen"<br> DefaultDepth 24<br>EndSection</span></font></span></div> <div><font face="新細明體" size="2"></font> </div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><span>Section "Module"<br> Load "glx"<br>EndSection</span></font></span></div> <div><font face="新細明體" size="2"></font> </div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><span>Section "Device"<br> Identifier "Default Device"<br> Driver "nvidia"<br> Option "NoLogo" "True"<br>EndSection</span></font></span></div> <div><font face="新細明體" size="2"></font> </div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><span>################################################# </span></font></span></div> <div><font face="新細明體" size="2"></font> </div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><span>Section "ServerLayout"<br> Identifier "Server Layout"<br> Screen 0 "DisplayLinkScreen" 0 0<br> Screen 1 "DisplayLinkScreen" LeftOf "Default Screen"<br> Option "Xinerama" "on"<br>EndSection</span></font></span></div> <div><font face="新細明體" size="2"></font> </div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><span>################################################# <br>Section "Files"<br> ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"<br> ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"<br>EndSection</span></font></span></div> <div><font face="新細明體" size="2"></font> </div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><span>############### DisplayLink Stuff ############### </span></font></span></div> <div><font face="新細明體" size="2"></font> </div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><span>Section "Device"<br> Identifier "DisplayLinkDevice"<br> driver "displaylink"<br> Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb0"<br>EndSection</span></font></span></div> <div><font face="新細明體" size="2"></font> </div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><span>Section "Monitor"<br> Identifier "DisplayLinkMonitor"<br>EndSection</span></font></span></div> <div><font face="新細明體" size="2"></font> </div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><span>Section "Screen"<br> Identifier "DisplayLinkScreen"<br> Device "DisplayLinkDevice"<br> Monitor "DisplayLinkMonitor"<br> SubSection "Display"<br> Depth 24<br> Modes "1400x1050"<br> EndSubSection<br>EndSection<br></span></font></span><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><span></span></font></span></div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><span>======</span></font></span></div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><span></span></font></span> </div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><span></span></font></span> </div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><span>I also tried to mark the NVIDIA's section and let DisplayLink be the default ouput.</span></font></span></div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><span>The X can show without the login screen. : (</span></font></span></div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><span>I must miss something but just can't find where.</span></font></span></div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><span></span></font></span> </div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><span>Please kinldy show me some hints about it.</span></font></span></div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><span></span></font></span> </div> <div><span><font face="新細明體" size="2"><span>Thanks in advance.</span></font></span></div></div> <br>_______________________________________________<br> Libdlo mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Libdlo@lists.freedesktop.org">Libdlo@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libdlo" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libdlo</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Kal McFate | Systems Engineer | The Rackspace Cloud | 210-415-1546<br>