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===DisplayLink monitors===
===DisplayLink monitors===
In order to use Displaylink monitors over USB, such as the ASUS MB16AC, the displaylink driver needs to be installed:
In order to use DisplayLink monitors over USB, such as the ASUS MB16AC, the DisplayLink driver needs to be installed:<syntaxhighlight lang="nixos">
services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "displaylink" "modesetting" ];
</syntaxhighlight>The module <code>nixos/modules/hardware/video/displaylink.nix</code> should also work for wlroots compositors.


{{bc|<nowiki>$ services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "displaylink" "modesetting" ];</nowiki>}}
Since these drivers depend on binary unfree blobs, you will need to first add it to your Nix store. Go to https://www.displaylink.com/downloads/ubuntu to get the appropriate driver version and note the download URL you get after accepting the EULA.


The module `nixos/modules/hardware/video/displaylink.nix` should also work for wlroots compositors.
As of 2024-05-01, the current latest version for the driver can be found at https://www.synaptics.com/products/displaylink-graphics/downloads/ubuntu-6.0?filetype=exe
 
Since these drivers depend on binary unfree blobs, you will need to first add it to your nix-store. Go to https://www.displaylink.com/downloads/ubuntu to get the appropriate driver version and note the download URL you get after accepting the EULA. The currently expected version for the driver can be found under: https://www.synaptics.com/products/displaylink-graphics/downloads/ubuntu-6.0?filetype=exe


Then (example):<syntaxhighlight lang="console">
Then (example):<syntaxhighlight lang="console">

Revision as of 14:47, 25 June 2024

DisplayLink monitors

In order to use DisplayLink monitors over USB, such as the ASUS MB16AC, the DisplayLink driver needs to be installed:

services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "displaylink" "modesetting" ];

The module nixos/modules/hardware/video/displaylink.nix should also work for wlroots compositors.

Since these drivers depend on binary unfree blobs, you will need to first add it to your Nix store. Go to https://www.displaylink.com/downloads/ubuntu to get the appropriate driver version and note the download URL you get after accepting the EULA.

As of 2024-05-01, the current latest version for the driver can be found at https://www.synaptics.com/products/displaylink-graphics/downloads/ubuntu-6.0?filetype=exe

Then (example):

$ nix-prefetch-url --name displaylink-600.zip https://www.synaptics.com/sites/default/files/exe_files/2024-05/DisplayLink%20USB%20Graphics%20Software%20for%20Ubuntu6.0-EXE.zip

Connecting a second external monitor

In order to add a second external monitor you can add the following to your configuration:

services.xserver.displayManager.sessionCommands = ''
    ${lib.getBin pkgs.xorg.xrandr}/bin/xrandr --setprovideroutputsource 2 0
'';