Okay, I just got a Lilliput 7" USB Monitor:
(source: thinkgeek.com)
Unfortunately, I am having some trouble getting it to work in Ubuntu.
It is a DisplayLink device, so it should work in Ubuntu.
Here is the output of lsusb
:
...
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 17e9:02a9 Newnham Research
...
I modified my xorg.conf
file to accommodate the device.
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings # nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildd@yellow) Fri Apr 9 11:51:21 UTC 2010 # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder58) Fri Mar 12 02:12:40 PST 2010 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "DisplayLinkScreen" 0 0 Screen 1 "Screen0" RightOf "DisplayLinkScreen" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" Option "Xinerama" "0" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "LPL" HorizSync 30.0 - 75.0 VertRefresh 60.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor1" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "BenQ T705" HorizSync 31.0 - 83.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce 8400M GS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device1" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce 8400M GS" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Screen 1 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" "0" Option "metamodes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen1" Device "Device1" Monitor "Monitor1" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TwinView" "0" Option "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection ################################################# Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules" ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers" EndSection ############### DisplayLink Stuff ############### Section "Device" Identifier "DisplayLinkDevice" driver "displaylink" Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb1" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "DisplayLinkMonitor" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "DisplayLinkScreen" Device "DisplayLinkDevice" Monitor "DisplayLinkMonitor" DefaultDepth 16 SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "800×480" EndSubSection EndSection
All I get is a green screen.
Any tips or advice would be appreciated!
Update: I discovered that X11 was having trouble finding the displaylink_drv.so
module, so I fixed that. Then my XServer completely crashed. (Segmentation fault, I believe.)
Now I'm really confused.
It's actually working... and I all did was restore
xorg.conf.backup
. Weird. Oh well.There is a quite detailed blog post from July 2010 - it certainly seems more complicated than it should be, and not quite a perfect outcome either.
Displaylink added Open Source on their support/feedback forum. DisplayLink drivers Open Source
I hope this will open up some better solutions and support for these DisplayLink USB displays.