FreeBSD - support for DisplayLink devices?

Torfinn Ingolfsen

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Nov 18, 2009, 4:32:23 PM11/18/09

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Hi,
Do we have support for DisplayLink devices in FreeBSD?
Like libdlo[2,3] or udl[4]?

Today I got a UM-70[5] monitor made by Lilliput, this is what /var/log/messages
says when I connectd it to my 7.2-stable machine:
Nov 18 22:18:13 kg-v2 root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x17e9 product 0x02a9 bus uhub1
Nov 18 22:18:13 kg-v2 kernel: ugen2: <DisplayLink LILLIPUT USB Monitor, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.23, addr 4> on uhub1

Output from 'usbdevs -v':
port 5 addr 4: high speed, power 500 mA, config 1, LILLIPUT USB Monitor(0x02a9), DisplayLink(0x17e9), rev 1.23

(No, I can't stop buying gadgets)

Refernces:
1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displaylink
2) http://displaylink.org/
3) http://libdlo.freedesktop.org/
4) http://libdlo.freedesktop.org/wiki/udl
5) http://www.lilliputlcd.com/lilliput-um70-7-usb-monitor-only-one-cable-does-all_p592.html
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Torfinn Ingolfsen

Torfinn Ingolfsen

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Nov 18, 2009, 5:04:31 PM11/18/09

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On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:47:19 +0100
Hans Petter Selasky <hsel...@c2i.net> wrote:

> Is there are userland driver using libusb for your device?

I don't know, really. I haven't finished googling yet. :-)

So far I've got this:
http://libdlo.freedesktop.org/wiki/
http://mulchman.org/blog/?tag=displaylink
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Torfinn Ingolfsen

Hans Petter Selasky

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Nov 18, 2009, 4:47:19 PM11/18/09

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On Wednesday 18 November 2009 22:44:04 Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:32:23 +0100

>
> Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn....@broadpark.no> wrote:
> > Today I got a UM-70[5] monitor made by Lilliput, this is
> > what /var/log/messages says when I connectd it to my 7.2-stable
> > machine:
>

> Oh, I forgot to tell the age of this -stable:
> tingo@kg-v2$ uname -a
> FreeBSD kg-v2.kg4.no 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #1: Fri Oct 30
> 19:46:58 CET 2009 ro...@kg-v2.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/V2 amd64

Is there are userland driver using libusb for your device?

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Torfinn Ingolfsen

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Nov 18, 2009, 4:44:04 PM11/18/09

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On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:32:23 +0100
Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn....@broadpark.no> wrote:

> Today I got a UM-70[5] monitor made by Lilliput, this is
> what /var/log/messages says when I connectd it to my 7.2-stable
> machine:

Oh, I forgot to tell the age of this -stable:

tingo@kg-v2$ uname -a
FreeBSD kg-v2.kg4.no 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #1: Fri Oct 30
19:46:58 CET 2009 ro...@kg-v2.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/V2 amd64

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Torfinn Ingolfsen

Andrew Thompson

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Nov 18, 2009, 5:08:55 PM11/18/09

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libdlo mentioned in the original email is a userland driver using
libusb. It should just work.

Note for FreeBSD 7 and below you will need to install the devel/libusb
port.

Andrew

Torfinn Ingolfsen

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Nov 20, 2009, 6:03:08 PM11/20/09

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On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:08:55 +1300
Andrew Thompson <tho...@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> libdlo mentioned in the original email is a userland driver using
> libusb. It should just work.

I've tried with just './configure' and
./configure --includedir=/usr/local/include
./configure --includedir=/usr/local/include --libdir=/usr/local/lib

but all bombs out with this:
checking for usb_open in -lusb... no
checking for usb_get_driver_np... no
configure: error: Can't find libusb. On ubuntu, try sudo apt-get install libusb-dev

> Note for FreeBSD 7 and below you will need to install the devel/libusb
> port.

libusb in ports is currently at version 0.1.12_4, I don't know if that
affects anything, but the libdlo page says "libusb (0.13)".
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Torfinn Ingolfsen