DisplayLink

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 10:04 -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> 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.

Thanks a lot for the info, Alex - much appreciated. Honestly, I could
probably live with a non-free driver :\. I will get in touch with
Michael and see how things are going there. Thanks again.
-- 
adamw
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