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External Display on HP USB-C Dock not working (feddit.org)

submitted 6 days ago by 872XXE@feddit.org to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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Hi,

I have this HP USB-C Dock but I don’t get the display ports working. The external display is not recognized by my Arch Notebook.

Do I need special drivers to use such docking stations?

(USB and Ethernet ports are working fine)

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[–] 872XXE@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What you describe here makes totally sense, since every time I plug a windows device to this docking station a pop up is telling me, that display link drivers are going to be installed…

Maybe I should dig into this display link topic.

Thanks!

[–] raldone01@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Displaylink works on arch. Just install evdi and displaylink from the aur. Enable the service and also use the linux-lts kernel. EVDI is unfortunately an out of tree kernel module and lags behind the usually very recent official arch kernel.

[–] 872XXE@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago

not forgetting linux-header and dkms ;)

Works directly after rebooting the Notebook.

Thanks!