Driver for USB 3.0 Docking Station (displaylink?)

[Dario Lesca]

Hi, I would like to try to use un my Asus notebook with Fedora 29 this
ASUS USB3.0 HZ-3 Docking Station
https://www.asus.com/it/Laptops-Accessories/ASUS_USB30_HZ3_Docking_Station/

For Linux I have found this driver:
https://www.displaylink.com/downloads/

But "Ubuntu" is not a S.O, it's a Distro! ... a S.O. like other
mentioned in this page is: "Linux"! ... not "Ubuntu"

Ubuntu is Linux, Linux is not Ubuntu!
 
This is very irritating ... Why not share simply a driver for Linux
(then for all distros) ?

Why this drivers is not into kernel of default?

How to I use this driver on Fedora 29?

Is this https://github.com/displaylink-rpm/displaylink-rpm and this 
https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi the only possible solution?

Many Thanks for your reply.


-- Dario Lesca
(inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 29 Workstation)

[John Harris]

On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 9:11:24 AM EST Dario Lesca wrote:
>  But "Ubuntu" is not a S.O, it's a Distro! ... a S.O.
> like other
>  mentioned in this page is: "Linux"! ... not "Ubuntu" 
S.O?

>  
>  Ubuntu is Linux, Linux is not Ubuntu! 
Ubuntu includes Linux, yes.

>  This is very irritating ... Why not share simply a driver for Linux
>  (then for all distros) ? 
Different distros have different policies on third party modules.

>  Why this drivers is not into kernel of default? 
It seems that evdi would only be useful for DisplayLink, but DisplayLink 
itself is proprietary. As such, there would be little point in merging evdi 
into mainline, even if they made a move to do so.

>  Is this https://github.com/displaylink-rpm/displaylink-rpm and this
>  https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi the only possible solution? 
Yes and no. That'd work, but unless you intend to keep up with it yourself, 
I'd suggest getting it from the following link instead. I actually used this 
myself a few weeks ago, while testing something. Note: The displaylink 
software itself is proprietary, while the kernel module (evdi) is free 
software. If you don't mind running proprietary software (This would be a show 
stopper for me, if it were on my own machine), you may use the following 
package or your link from above.

http://www.nosuchhost.net/~cheese/fedora/packages/29/x86_64/displaylink.html

Note: This is a third party package, and is not affiliated with or endorsed by 
Fedora..

-- 
John M. Harris, Jr. <johnmh(a)splentity.com&gt;
Splentity
https://splentity.com/

[Dario Lesca]

Il giorno mar, 22/01/2019 alle 09.24 -0500, John Harris ha scritto:
>  On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 9:11:24 AM EST Dario Lesca wrote:
>  > But "Ubuntu" is not a S.O, it's a Distro! ... a S.O. like
>  > othermentioned in this page is: "Linux"! ... not "Ubuntu"
>  
>  S.O? 
Opss! I meant O.S. (Operating Systems), and not "Sistema Operativo"
(LANG=it_IT)

>  ... you may use the following package or your link from above.
>  http://www.nosuchhost.net/~cheese/fedora/packages/29/x86_64/displaylink.html
>  
>  Note: This is a third party package, and is not affiliated with or
>  endorsed by Fedora.. 
Ok, thanks, I get a try.

Many thanks also to Peter and Luis 
-- 
Dario Lesca
(inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 29 Workstation)

[John Harris]

On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 9:46:44 AM EST Dario Lesca wrote:
>  Il giorno mar, 22/01/2019 alle 09.24 -0500, John Harris ha scritto:
>  > On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 9:11:24 AM EST Dario Lesca wrote:
>  > > But "Ubuntu" is not a S.O, it's a Distro! ... a S.O. like
>  > > othermentioned in this page is: "Linux"! ... not "Ubuntu"
>  > 
>  > S.O?
>  
>  Opss! I meant O.S. (Operating Systems), and not "Sistema Operativo"
>  (LANG=it_IT) 
Ah! In that case, yes, Ubuntu is an operating system. Fedora is also an 
operating system. Both Ubuntu and Fedora are distributions of the GNU 
operating system and the Linux kernel. Both distros have different default 
configurations for both the userland and the kernel, and both distros patch 
the kernel provided with their own changes.

-- 
John M. Harris, Jr. <johnmh(a)splentity.com&gt;
Splentity
https://splentity.com/

[Peter Robinson]

>  Hi, I would like to try to use un my Asus notebook with Fedora 29
> this ASUS USB3.0 HZ-3 Docking Station
>  https://www.asus.com/it/Laptops-Accessories/ASUS_USB30_HZ3_Docking_Station/
>
>  For Linux I have found this driver:
>  https://www.displaylink.com/downloads/
>
>  But "Ubuntu" is not a S.O, it's a Distro! ... a S.O. like other mentioned
> in this page is: "Linux"! ... not "Ubuntu"
>
>  Ubuntu is Linux, Linux is not Ubuntu!
>  This is very irritating ... Why not share simply a driver for Linux (then for all
> distros) ?
>
>  Why this drivers is not into kernel of default? 
Basically displaylink isn't part of the open USB standards protocol
like say USB storage/input etc so it's a proprietary standard without
an open driver and without decent open spec or the details to write an
open driver its not great. I think the Arch Wiki describes it well
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DisplayLink

[Luis Manuel Segundo]

Hello Dario, you can download the necessary driver for your Fedora from this address
https://github.com/displaylink-rpm/displaylink-rpm/releases
and then run the RPM with this command
e.g.
sudo dnf  install fedora-29-displaylink-1.5.1-1.x86_64.rpm

Regards

[John Harris]

On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 9:35:46 AM EST Luis Manuel Segundo wrote:
>  Hello Dario, you can download the necessary driver for your Fedora
> from this
>  address https://github.com/displaylink-rpm/displaylink-rpm/releases 
 and
>  then run the RPM with this command
>  e.g.
>  sudo dnf  install fedora-29-displaylink-1.5.1-1.x86_64.rpm 
It is important to note that is is installing third party proprietary 
software.

-- 
John M. Harris, Jr. <johnmh(a)splentity.com&gt;
Splentity
https://splentity.com/

[Raphael Groner]

Hi,

an official package for the displaylink driver would be awesome.

Upstream or the manufacturer of this docking stations with external gpu (plugged via
USB-C) seems to care about Ubuntu only as there are official builds for this distribution
only. Another problem is that not everything in the provided software is free. They
provide parts of the source on GitHub but that seems to be incomplete to get my dock
working with Fedora (or OpenSUSE in particular).

As far as I can remember, there are RPM builds available from OpenSUSE in
OpenBuildService. Unfortunately, I lost the links. Maybe someone can find them again
there.

Regards, Raphael