Can't connect my asus Zenscreen MB16ACV

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Hello, I'm using archlinux and I try to connect my monitor to my laptop but when I plug in my asus zenscreen I have a message who appears : "your device does not support DP alt mode, please install the latest driver and try again". I already try to install the last driver but they don't exist for archlinux, What should I do ?
 


Yes it is.

I am on archlinux so is not the same things than ubuntu ( your link is for ubuntu)
 
Yes it is.

I am on archlinux so is not the same things than ubuntu ( your link is for ubuntu)

Scroll down and read at the bottom.
 
sure.
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ohhh yeah I see
it's here : https://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/679060
I will try tomorrow thanks

Yup, you got it.

DisplayLink has not created drivers for other packages, however the Ubuntu driver contains an open source component which is designed to be modified to enable the Ubuntu driver to be repackaged for any other Linux distro by the user community. Details on how the Ubuntu driver package can be unpacked and modified for other distros is covered in this article.

So, you can at least poke around in the package and see if you can make heads or tails out of it.
 
The driver is in your installed kernel, what graphics card are you using?
I found an archlinux forum post from about a year ago where the person tried both using modesetting and xf86-video-intel. So I'm kind of guessing your have an intel video chip, if so try that both of those?
 
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I'm using an AMD radeon vega 8 graphics and I don't think that I'm using an intel video chip because my processor is also an amd
 
Well since modsetting doesn't seem to work for you, you could also try:
- adding "MODULES=(amdgpu radeon)" to mkinitcpio.conf and then generating new initram.
- Installing the "xf86-video-amdgpu" package and then reboot.
 
Okay for the second but I don't understand the first, when I open mkinitcpio.conf it's in readonly, and how could I genertate a new initram
 
If you installed Arch you should know how to do that, how did you install Arch?
 
I download the iso with a usb key and run it, after I follow the guided instalation
 
Yup, you got it.



So, you can at least poke around in the package and see if you can make heads or tails out of it.
I don't know what to do after I do the step in the screeshot
 

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I download the iso with a usb key and run it, after I follow the guided instalation
Okay for the second but I don't understand the first, when I open mkinitcpio.conf it's in readonly, and how could I genertate a new initram
Since you used the installer you actually have no idea what goes into the the different configurations. I would suggest to read the Arch official installation guide to help you understand the configurations better.

For now you open it with your favorite text editor(ie:, vim nano, leafpad, etc.). For example:
Code:
sudo vim /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
Then edit the file and save it and run the following with sudo.
Code:
sudo mkinitcpio -P
 
Okay, I do that but my second screen still don't work
When searching posts about what other people ran into it seems they ended up going towards the DisplayLink website, the one @KGIII already mentioned.

I don't know what to do after I do the step in the screeshot
It looks like that page is only a general guide of how to package the Ubuntu driver for another distribution.

So I searched around some and it looks like there are two AUR packages you could try since they have been recently updated.

One has the same website source as the Ubuntu driver package: displaylink
The other has the source of a github project page also mentioning the DisplayLink Ubuntu driver: evdi-git
Looking at the comments of both PKGBUILDS they still need to be updated to work with kernel 6.x.x but you can still try installing it to see if you can get either one to install and work. If not you will have to wait for them to fix the PKGBUILD to work with kernel 6.x.x.
 
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It looks like that page is only a general guide of how to package the Ubuntu driver for another distribution.

I put some effort into finding a solution and that was the very best I could come up with. It was an interesting search, but it eventually led to that being the most probable solution.
 

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