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I'm using 13.10, and have upgraded my kernel to 3.14rc5 and blacklisted udlfb. I boot up, plug in the DisplayLink adapter, and everything appears to be peachy at first blush:

> lsusb
  Bus 002 Device 002: ID 17e9:0360 DisplayLink 

So far so good. Taking a gander at xrandr, I can see the HDMI and DVI outputs. If I look in the display settings (or arandr), I can see both outputs. When I check the output from dmesg, I see the DisplayLink adapter get picked up, but it never gets attached to a device. This feels very fishy, but I'm still fairly new at this and hitting a wall.

Any suggestions?

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I managed to get some signs of life on the setup I had in my question and after playing with the resolutions (setting to a lower resolution seemed to help). I'm not sure the resolutions are mapped properly, but at least I'm getting an image.

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I followed almost the same exact steps. Here's some things that might help that I've done/realized, taken from an ubuntu forums discussion of this

  1. It doesn't work for me unless I have the usb monitor plugged in when I start up.
  2. Instead of blacklisting udlfb, blacklist udl, as explained in that forum. To do this, add blacklist udl to a new file called /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-custom.conf. Then comment out the blacklist udlfb in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.conf.
  3. To finish it out, I just went to system settings -> display, activated the USB monitor, and it came on. I had booted with the displaylink adapter plugged in.

Currently I'm running two external monitors on a MacBook Pro 9,1. It's a little sluggish at times, and my cursor is blinking a lot when I use the built-in monitor along with the two external. Setting the system to not sleep on closing the lid and closing the lid gets rid of the blinking and sluggishness.

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  • Funnily enough, that was the article I had originally based most of my tinkering off of. I did eventually get it to "work." See my answer.
    – Ross
    Mar 14, 2014 at 15:40

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