Installing Displaylink Drivers - Framework 12 - Fedora

Framework Laptop 12 Linux
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Which Linux distro are you using? Fedora (Workstation)

Which release version? 43

Which kernel are you using? Linux 6.18.6-200.fc43.x86_64

Which BIOS version are you using? 03.06

Which Framework Laptop 12 model are you using? (13th Gen Intel® Core™)

I tried looking around for step-by-step guides on how to enable displaylink on the framework 12.
Plenty of resources available, but they all seem to go about it a different way

Some point to Releases · displaylink-rpm/displaylink-rpm · GitHub, some ask you to enable certain third party repos, some to just download and install it direct from above mentioned repo.

I’m fairly comfortable on debian based distros, but I’m a bit weary to blindly thrust repos unfamiliar to me.

TL;DR: Did any of you manage to get displaylink working and have a trusted repo/source for the packages needed? (I’m okay doing most of the leg work myself, just need a few pointer for where to start)

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I landed here, hoping you had a solution - I got things working for Fedora 42, but since updating to 43 it’s crashed out on me again. I’m searching around now, so if I find something I’ll report back here and update

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Displaylink is not open source. It is a binary blob. So, it is only going to work on the specific linux kernel version and distro version it is intended for.
It also encrypts its log files, so if it does not work, you won’t have a clue what went wrong.
So, probably best to avoid displaylink if you use linux.

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My Solution (probably not perfect, but working):

  1. sudo dnf config-manager addrepo --from-repofile=https://negativo17.org/repos/fedora-multimedia
  2. sudo dnf install displaylink
  3. sudo dnf install dkms-evdi
  4. dkms generate_mok
  5. sudo mokutil --import /var/lib/dkms/mok.pub
  6. Create a password, enter and confirm
  7. Reboot
  8. In the MOK Manager EFI Interface, Enroll Mok, Continue, Yes, [Enter password], Reboot
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Thanks! Had a look around and that seems about what I was looking for.

Was kinda getting lost in the weeds of which repo to use :slight_smile: