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  • And another Dell Vostro 1700 question

    From Van Snyder@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 20 22:10:01 2024
    This is probably not specific to Dell Vostro.

    I have a Dell Vostro 1700 running Debian Trixie.

    I have some DisplayLink e1649Fwu USB monitors.

    When I boot, there's junk (mixed graphics and text that seems to be out
    of sync) on one, and the other is dark. When I reboot, it's almost the
    same, except the monitors' roles have switched.

    The graphics chip is NVidia G58M (GeForce 8400M) and the NVidia 340
    driver is running.

    Would the nouveau driver work for the USB monitors?

    I tried to run the script for the contributed installer at https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/displaylink-debian/blob/master/displaylink-debian.sh
    but it ran into version-conflict problems.

    Any ideas?


    <html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>This is probably not specific to Dell Vostro.</div><div><br></div><div>I have a Dell Vostro 1700 running Debian Trixie.</div><div><br></div><div>I have some DisplayLink
    e1649Fwu USB monitors.</div><div><br></div><div>When I boot, there's junk (mixed graphics and text that seems to be out of sync) on one, and the other is dark. When I reboot, it's almost the same, except the monitors' roles have switched.</div><div><br></
    <div>The graphics chip is NVidia G58M (GeForce 8400M) and the NVidia 340 driver is running.</div><div><br></div><div>Would the nouveau driver work for the USB monitors?</div><div><br></div><div>I tried to run the script for the contributed installer
    at&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/displaylink-debian/blob/master/displaylink-debian.sh">https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/displaylink-debian/blob/master/displaylink-debian.sh</a> but it ran into version-conflict problems.</div><div><br></div><
    Any ideas?</div><div><br></div></body></html>

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  • From Dan Ritter@21:1/5 to Van Snyder on Mon May 20 22:30:01 2024
    Van Snyder wrote:
    I have some DisplayLink e1649Fwu USB monitors.

    When I boot, there's junk (mixed graphics and text that seems to be out
    of sync) on one, and the other is dark. When I reboot, it's almost the
    same, except the monitors' roles have switched.

    Would the nouveau driver work for the USB monitors?

    No. The nouveau driver is for NVidia graphics controllers; the
    USB monitors have their own on-board graphics controllers, which
    are probably not made by NVidia, and certainly don't use the
    standard drivers.

    -dsr-

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 21 07:20:02 2024
    Am 20.05.2024 um 12:59:40 Uhr schrieb Van Snyder:

    When I boot, there's junk (mixed graphics and text that seems to be
    out of sync) on one, and the other is dark. When I reboot, it's
    almost the same, except the monitors' roles have switched.

    The graphics chip is NVidia G58M (GeForce 8400M) and the NVidia 340
    driver is running.

    Would the nouveau driver work for the USB monitors?

    Try it.
    I've already experienced issues with the nouveau driver with multi
    cards. It was a 6200TC and the internal Intel HD graphics.
    Sometimes graphics card break (memory or GPU issue), but aren't
    completely broken. This was especially the case for the older ones.
    Many laptops with 7xxx, 8xxx and 9xxx had graphics issues.

    --
    Gruß
    Marco

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