DisplayLink

[Alex Deucher]

On Feb 6, 2008 8:36 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliamson at mandriva.com> wrote:
> One other option I came across for my extra-external-monitor situation
> (see other thread about sisusb etc), btw, was this:
>
> http://www.everythingusb.com/iogear_usb_2.0_external_video_card_12787.html
>
> It's another USB video adapter, but this one based on DisplayLink:
>
> http://www.displaylink.com/
>
> which seems to be basically a custom designed adapter plus driver with
> whizzy compression abilities and stuff that allows better performance
> for USB video. Currently they only have Windows drivers, but they
> announced drivers for OS X at MacWorld this year.
>
> I Googled for "displaylink" "linux" and "displaylink" "xorg", checked
> the archives of this list, and came up blank.
>
> Has anyone seen / heard of this thing, and looked into how difficult
> it'd be to do an X.org driver?

Micheal Dales gave a talk about these devices at XDS:
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Events/XDS2007/Program
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/MichaelDales

Unfortunately, I don't think the driver or the support library will be
open-sourced.

Alex