evdi VS synergy-core

git clone https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi.git

So I'm currently on Ubuntu 22.10 with Mesa and asahi-edge kernel. You need both to allow using primary GPU as source output. I'm using evdi 1.13.1 with the correction to set the module to the 1.12.0 to run the script displaylink from Synaptics for Ubuntu.

The RPM version never worked for me. It's only useful for getting the services installed. After that clone the repo from https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi and change to the devel branch. Run make and sudo make install. If you use SecureBoot you also need to sign the resulting evdi.ko with your key. After that restart displaylink.service or reboot and it should work. At least it did for me. I's been a while since I had to use it.

Uninstallation steps complete. darren@pop-os:~/displaylinkfix$ ./displaylink-driver-5.6.1-59.184.run --noexec --keep Creating directory displaylink-driver-5.6.1-59.184 Verifying archive integrity... 100% MD5 checksums are OK. All good. Uncompressing DisplayLink Linux Driver 5.6.1-59.184 100% darren@pop-os:~/displaylinkfix$ cd ./displaylink-driver-5.6.1-59.184 darren@pop-os:~/displaylinkfix/displaylink-driver-5.6.1-59.184$ curl -L https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi/archive/refs/heads/devel.tar.gz -o evdi.tar.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 100 80603 0 80603 0 0 179k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 179k darren@pop-os:~/displaylinkfix/displaylink-driver-5.6.1-59.184$ nano darren@pop-os:~/displaylinkfix/displaylink-driver-5.6.1-59.184$ nano evdi.tar.gz darren@pop-os:~/displaylinkfix/displaylink-driver-5.6.1-59.184$

I'm afraid this might be a hardware issue, maybe with the cable. I don't have a second cable to swap out unfortunately. A new one won't be here until Saturday. And it seems like a hell of a coincidence for the cable to fail when there's other issues reported within the last few days that seem very similar.

https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi states

Theres a bug in the 6.2 kernel right now with at least the evdi package (dont know about evdi-git) but can be fixed with a patch. Pr for it is already open but yet to be merged https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi/pull/401

No one has mentioned ShareMouse yet? (https://www.sharemouse.com/) In my experience it has worked way better than Synergy. I switched after getting fed up with the synergy developers not responding to various multi-year old bugs that made the software unworkable for me (e.g. https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/issues/5992).

The only downside is that you have to "renew maintenance" to continue receiving updates to ShareMouse after a year. But I haven't done that yet and it still works fine for me.

I want to be able to do things like Synergy, Steam Link, Unified Remote, and Media Servers between any of these devices, with as little added latency as possible (especially important for steam link)

i've got several fedora linux machines running and sharing their monitors via synergy (https://symless.com/synergy) , all controlled by the keyboard/mouse on the primary synergy server.

Not sure if this is what you're asking, but I've been using Synergy Pro (Windows, macOS, Linux) for years, and it works seamlessly. It lets you share your mouse and keyboard across multiple systems (with or w/o encryption), copy and paste between computers, etc.

I've got an M2 MacBook Air

Per the Advanced... screen under Displays in System Settings, you can link to a Mac or iPad to control it a la Synergy[0]

I have not done it myself, but I do not see why you could not do it with a current-gen Mac Mini

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[0] https://symless.com/synergy

I previously used a software solution to do the same thing and it was actually really good, better even. It might have been this software but I have to check to be sure - https://symless.com/synergy - as I’m not at my laptop right now.