Evdi 12.0.1 dosen’t work with kernel 5.18.14

[muellerjoel]

• ArchLinux
• 5.18.14
• Cinnamon

Network and USB works but no display signal and can’t choose resulotion with evdi 11.0 works but can’t choose resolution over FullHD. It’s was possible before.

[ghost]

Same with me with the version 1.12.0 and kernel 5.18.14-arch1-1 Rollback to 1.11.0 fixes the issue.

[julian-poidevin]

@fs-evooq Hello, I have the same issue, how did you roll-back ? Did you compile and install from sources ? Thanks

[muellerjoel]

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/evdi.git cd evdi vim PKGBUILD

#edit version number 1.11.0 and hash sum to ‘SKIP’ makepkg -si

Sorry for the faults I adjusted hope is now clear

[ghost]

@julian-poidevin To rollback the aur package installed with paru:

cd ~/.cache/paru/clone/evdi
git log
git checkout 4bcc74e6f3dd59fda2abd07fea1d990858fcaa55
makepkg -cirs
sudo rmmod evdi
sudo modprobe evdi

[julian-poidevin]

Thanks a lot guys !

[displaylink-emajewsk]

Hi, recently released Evdi 1.12.0 is incompatible with the Displaylink driver 5.6, because of an API change. Hm, AUR maintainers should be more careful and wait for the binary driver.

[olof-nord]

Same problem here, also Arch Linux. Kernel 5.18.14, GNOME.

• displaylink 5.6-1
• evdi 1.12.0-1

[lnksz]

Same problem on Kernel v5.10.131, rollback to v1.11.0 was needed.

[1Maxnet1]

git clone https://aur.archlinux.git/evdi.git

This address does not exist. The correct command would be: git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/evdi.git

It does also not work for me.

[olof-nord]

I can confirm a rollback from evdi 1.12.0-1 to evdi 1.11.0-1 using the method described by @fs-evooq in their comment got my external monitor working again. Really appreciate the advice!

[direc85]

As details.md says, major version number should be increased when incompatible API changes occur, yet only minor version was increased. This means that v1.12 should have been released as v2.0 instead.

[palexdev]

I'm experiencing graphical artifacts at the mouse position on both the screens evdi 1.11.0-1 displaylink 5.6-1

[julian-poidevin]

I'm experiencing graphical artifacts at the mouse position on both the screens evdi 1.11.0-1 displaylink 5.6-1

@palexdev This is a known issue. See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZGX-3dATW4&ab_channel=FixitKB%21

The solution for me is to logout then login again and it resolves the issue.

[palexdev]

I'm experiencing graphical artifacts at the mouse position on both the screens evdi 1.11.0-1 displaylink 5.6-1

@palexdev This is a known issue. See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZGX-3dATW4&ab_channel=FixitKB%21

The solution for me is to logout then login again and it resolves the issue.

Thank you very much, that solves the issue for me too This is a temporary workaround, right? Every time I disconnect/connect the display I will have to do it again?

[julian-poidevin]

I'm experiencing graphical artifacts at the mouse position on both the screens evdi 1.11.0-1 displaylink 5.6-1

@palexdev This is a known issue. See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZGX-3dATW4&ab_channel=FixitKB%21 The solution for me is to logout then login again and it resolves the issue.

Thank you very much, that solves the issue for me too This is a temporary workaround, right? Every time I disconnect/connect the display I will have to do it again?

Yes I think. At least, that the case for me.

[5472qaywsx]

@Joel-Muller, as of your reply https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi/issues/373#issuecomment-1193698588 with a possible solution via git clone and makepkg:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.git/evdi.git cd evdi vim PKGBUILD

#edit version number 11.0.0 and hash sum to ‘SKIP’ makepkg -si

Worked for me with following changes, HTH:

• in a terminal, issue the command git clone [https://aur.archlinux.org/evdi.git](https://aur.archlinux.org/evdi.git) (note the archlinux.org part, as already stated by @1Maxnet1 in another comment)
• issue the command cd evdi
• edit PKGBUILD file i.e. with vim PKGBUILD
• edit version number line to pkgver=1.11.0 (or 1.11.0-1, but not 11.0.0)
• edit hash sum line to sha256sums=('SKIP') (attention, I don't know if this could be a security issue)

[direc85]

DisplayLink 5.6.1 has been released, and it's compatible with evdi 1.12.0. Source: changelog.

The DisplayLink AUR package is still at 5.6 at the time of writing. A self-bumped version works with evdi 1.12.0, for me at least.

[rbeucher]

Hi, Just upgraded to 5.19.3-arch1-1 and the displaylink service fails to load... I am running evdi 1.12.0 from AUR and displaylink 5.6.1

[muellerjoel]

For me evdi 1.11.0 and displaylink 5.6 still works

[1up9059]

Hi am running 5.19.3-arch1-1 and fail when evdi is uploaded from 1.11.0 to 1.12.0, I needed to do a rollback

[rbeucher]

rollback to 1.11.0? What version of displaylink are you running?

[q-wertz]

Yes, you have to rollback to 1.11.0 (as described by https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi/issues/373#issuecomment-1193698810) (just replace cd ~/.cache/paru/clone/evdi accordingly to your package manager) until the AUR package of displaylink is updated to the new 5.6.1 version (see https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi/issues/373#issuecomment-1219468570)

[1up9059]

rollback to 1.11.0? What version of displaylink are you running?

Yes, if you rollback evdi to 1.11.0 displaylink will works again

[rbeucher]

No, I think there is a pb with evdi. I can't add the module:

modprobe evdi
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'evdi': Invalid argument

dmesg | grep evdi
[ 6033.780665] failed to validate module [evdi] BTF: -22
[ 6035.177502] failed to validate module [evdi] BTF: -22
[ 6039.029240] failed to validate module [evdi] BTF: -22
[ 6044.290658] failed to validate module [evdi] BTF: -22
[ 6049.530255] failed to validate module [evdi] BTF: -22
[ 6054.789138] failed to validate module [evdi] BTF: -22
[ 6060.041652] failed to validate module [evdi] BTF: -22

[1up9059]

No, I think there is a pb with evdi. I can't add the module:

modprobe evdi
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'evdi': Invalid argument

dmesg | grep evdi
[ 6033.780665] failed to validate module [evdi] BTF: -22
[ 6035.177502] failed to validate module [evdi] BTF: -22
[ 6039.029240] failed to validate module [evdi] BTF: -22
[ 6044.290658] failed to validate module [evdi] BTF: -22
[ 6049.530255] failed to validate module [evdi] BTF: -22
[ 6054.789138] failed to validate module [evdi] BTF: -22
[ 6060.041652] failed to validate module [evdi] BTF: -22

I only followed this procedure; I uninstalled evdi I uninstalled DisplayLink (I think maybe this is not necessary to do, but I did it) I clone the git repository for evdi from aur page and once I got the PKG file I edited the pkgver to pkgver=1.11.0 and sha256sums to sha256sums=('SKIP'). Once I did that, I did makepkg -si procedure and reinstalled DisplayLink again and my docking worked again. I have a pluggable USB3.0, so that is working fine now

I based this procedure in the answer of @5472qaywsx and my displaylink version is displaylink 5.6-1

[rbeucher]

Yes thanks, I did try that but no luck.

[Grisu118]

@rbeucher I have the same issue as you, created a new issue: https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi/issues/377

[rbeucher]

Thanks @Grisu118 . I hope we are gonna sort this out.

[olof-nord]

After a recent system upgrade, my external monitor yet again stayed black. I noticed that evdi was again on the incompatible 1.12 version - this despite me using displaylink 5.6-1.

After reverting back to the old 1.11 evdi version again, I adjusted my pacman config as to avoid evdi from being upgraded. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#Skip_package_from_being_upgraded

[direc85]

@olof-nord Evdi 1.12 doesn't work with displaylink 5.6. The dependencies go like this (using Arch versioning):

• displaylink 5.6-1 <--> evdi 1.11.0-1
• displaylink 5.6.1-1 <--> evdi 1.12.0-1