[elrepo] package suggestion: USB DisplayLink drivers and X11 driver

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On 07/02/2011 04:07 PM, Phil Perry wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> Apologies for the length of time it's taken me to reply.
>
> Thanks for your experimentation and feedback - most useful.
>
> As you've suggested, I've packaged the xf-video-udlfb driver from the
> http://git.plugable.com repository.
>
> I've named the package xorg-x11-drv-displaylink in keeping with other
> xorg-x11-drv packages within the distro and it provides the
> displaylink_drv.so module.
>
> The following files are syncing to the el6 testing repository:
>
> http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el6/
>
> xorg-x11-drv-displaylink-0.0.1-1.el6.elrepo.i686.rpm
> xorg-x11-drv-displaylink-0.0.1-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> xorg-x11-drv-displaylink-0.0.1-1.el6.elrepo.src.rpm
>
> I wasn't sure on the upstream version numbering for this driver (I
> couldn't find any?) so have just versioned it at 0.0.1. If you know of
> an upstream version number we can use that.
>
> Could you test the above with the udlfb kernel driver and report back if
> they work as expected (i.e, they work inasmuch as you previously reported).
>
> I will create basic pages for these packages on the elrepo Wiki (every
> package has to have it's own page). If you would like to document what
> you've found for these packages plus any configs etc then we can set you
> up with an account on the Wiki and I'm happy to hand the pages over to
> you  :-)
>
> WRT your issues above, about the only thing I can think to suggest is to
> try falling back to the distro "nv" driver if you think the proprietary
> "nvidia" driver is causing multi-display issues. But I'm not the best
> person to ask about X config issues!
>
> Regards,
>
> Phil
>
Hi Phil

I'll try out both of these 2 pieces together, and report back.  With the 
holidays and some vacation coming up, its been a little hard for me to 
find time, but I will do it and report back here.

Cheers,
Greg