Usb Vga Display Adapter Driver Linux

Ok so after transitioning to linux mint I have pretty much set everything up(virtual box with win7 in seamless mode. Apps, etc.) the only thing left is configuring and setting up my third monitor which is connected via a USB DisplayLink adapter. I have the 'green screen' and everything I am just still a super noob and novice to configure a xorg.inf or that config file to set up a picture for the third monitor. Is there a simpler way if not a link or step by step instruction will be nice Thanks for everything so far! Guys, it is possible to get Displaylink working as a third monitor but you get degraded performance. (lag) You need to download the 3.10 kernel.

I'm running on 10.10 and planning on getting an usb -> vga adapter for my monitor. Chirag pc drivers. Because they have their own internal GPU, a lot of people have had a LOT of driver issues. USB display adapters are either not supported, poorly supported. Last I looked, there was some rudimentary linux support. How to connect a monitor via an USB based VGA card? I assume the USB to VGA adapter requires specific drivers. Did you check if they are available for Linux,.

I have an Nvidia driver which failed right out of the box so I had to go install the Noveau driver from 'Device drivers' located within System Settings. After a reboot go under 'Displays' and configure your three monitors and they do show, but like I said the performance is severely degraded. When I just had my 2 19inch monitors everything works perfectly. Adding the third is where it fails. I've been playing with it the last few hours with my Mint 15 installation and trying various desktop environments but they all suffer as far as quality goes. I tried Razor-QT, XFCE and even Openbox with no luck. The closest I came was Razor-QT but as soon as I launched a movie on my third monitor (which is a 37 inch TV) my picture was garbled.

If you plan on using 3 monitors the same size you may have luck. Go to the link above, follow the download instructions, and like I said your proprietary Nvidia drivers will fail out of the box (not sure about ATI/AMD) so install the Noveau and then try different desktop environments until you find the right combo. Let me know how it goes.

Maybe I can get my system working. Hi, Following the advice from this post several months ago, I managed to get my DisplayLink adapter working perfectly as a 3rd monitor, with my shiny new Linux Mint 15 installation. However, I have just done a brand new install of Linux Mint 16, expecting that the DisplayLink adapter would continue to work, but this doesn't appear to be the case. I have checked the version of the kernel (3.11.0), which is higher than the version previously installed (and working), and recommended by this post. Mint 16 doesn't seem to recognise the DisplayLink adapter when it is plugged into my machine. I really miss my 3rd monitor. Does anyone have any further advice for getting the DisplayLink adapter to work with Linux Mint 16??

Any advice, gratefully received. I'm trying to move from Windows to Linux Mint, at my job I use 3 monitors (works perfectly on Windows). It's VERY convenient for me, and therefore very important. One of these monitors is connected via displaylink, so I do my best to implement the same setup on Linux. I tried to use Mint 13 (LTS), but I was failed to set displaylink: I have installed kernel 3.10, and at system startup monitor goes active, but the only thing displayed is a non-blinking cursor at the left-top corner. Xrandr does not see this monitor at all. I tried to follow these instructions:, and it started to work ugly, but I want my setup to be easily configurable (as it is on Windows), so I want to use xrandr.