Displaylink and Ubuntu on M1

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  • ubuntu-asahi

    Native Ubuntu installations for Apple silicon hardware

  • I got displaylink dock working with a MacBook M1 on Ubuntu 22.10. Finally 3 screens, we can start consider it as a working station. Thanks to the Asahi Devs and Ubuntu-asahi scripts.

  • evdi

    Extensible Virtual Display Interface

  • 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.

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  • docs

    Hardware and software docs / wiki (by AsahiLinux)

  • For a MacBook Pro M1, following the Asahi wiki wiki It should work. As you need linux-asahi-edge and mesa-edge

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