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</syntaxhighlight>The module <code>nixos/modules/hardware/video/displaylink.nix</code> 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~~.

Since these drivers depend on binary unfree blobs, you will need to first add it to your Nix store.

~~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.~~

When you try to use `pkgs.displaylink` in your nixos system, you will get the instructions printed to the stderr, follow those to prefetch the driver.

~~After~~ you ~~have downloaded~~ the ~~driver, run something like~~ the ~~following~~, ~~adjusting the version number in <code>displaylink-600.zip</code>~~ to ~~match~~ the ~~version supported in NixOS at the moment:<syntaxhighlight lang="console">~~

~~$ 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~~

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====Connecting a second external monitor====

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 </syntaxhighlight>The module <code>nixos/modules/hardware/video/displaylink.nix</code> 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.
+Since these drivers depend on binary unfree blobs, you will need to first add it to your Nix store.
-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.
+When you try to use `pkgs.displaylink` in your nixos system, you will get the instructions printed to the stderr, follow those to prefetch the driver.
-After you have downloaded the driver, run something like the following, adjusting the version number in <code>displaylink-600.zip</code> to match the version supported in NixOS at the moment:<syntaxhighlight lang="console">
-$ 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
-</syntaxhighlight>
 ====Connecting a second external monitor====