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Some times before I posted about how I got this monitor working in Ubuntu How to get Lilliput DisplayLink based USB Monitor UM-70 (17e9:02a9) working in Ubuntu Linux. This post is about DisplayLinks USB monitor from Lilliput working on Raspberry Pi. The configuration is as below: Hardware: Raspberry Pi, UM-70 Lilliput monitor connected to USB Port through powered USB Hub. Powered USB hub is mandatory for this device, since the current capacity of on board USB port is not enough to drive this monitor. Software: raspbian, a distro derived from Debian with optimization for Raspberry Pi. The idea is to use this as media display for home. This monitor is configured to display Slide show, a Analog Clock, a monthly Calendar, Weather forecast for 5 days and Quote of the day. Weather forecast uses home internet connection to retrieve live data.
The first step in getting this done is to compile the raspbian kernel with changed we do. Here is a nice article on compiling your kernel for Raspberry Pi. Before compiling, in menuconfig we include udlfb module, which supports DisplayLink Display. Follow Device Drivers -> Graphics Support -> Support for Frame buffer devices . Enable Displaylink USB Framebuffer support by selecting M for module or * for kernel built-in. Optionally if you dont want HDMI port enabled, you can unselect BCM2708 framebuffer support. The device node for displaylink is /dev/fb0 if it is the only module you enable in framebuffer. In case you enable BCM2708 also, /dev/fb0 is allocated for that. Displaylink will get /dev/fb1. You need to know this to configure /etc/X11/xorg.conf in following steps.
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Once kernel build is over, you can overwrite the kernel and modules on top of raspbian image as per build article link. Power on Raspberry Pi, you should be able to see green screen which shows that displaylink kernel module is loaded and works fine. Now it is time to configure X server for this new hardware. I have already done this job for QNAP NAS Server (again Debian ARM). It is basically get displaylink xorg driver compiled in Raspberry Pi (not on other build machine). Here is the article on this. You may follow the instructions starting from step-3 to get X Server working. Here is my Displaylink display working on Raspberry Pi.
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1. Lilliput DisplayLink USB Monitor UM-70 (17e9:02a9) with QNAP TS-110 on Debian Linux (armel) 2. How to get Lilliput DisplayLink based USB Monitor UM-70 (17e9:02a9) working in Ubuntu Linux 3. DIY: Digital Photo Frame on Linux 4. How to get Scheduled Power On feature working in Debian GNU/Linux on QNAP TS-110 Server? This entry was posted in Kernel, RaspberryPi and tagged Debian, display, DisplayLink, HOWTO, kernel, Lilliput, Linux, monitor, raspberrypi, raspbian. Bookmark the permalink.
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oinquer
14 hours ago
Did it but after the first boot with kernel and modules/firmware, without Xorg configured im without mouse/keyboard after Xorg starts.......keyboard leds freeze and thats it...system is still working tho...
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wombley
2 months ago
This is very useful, can you provide instructions on how you got the media display in one of the other posts setup? I wanted to use a raspberry pi with usb monitor to create a media display with pictures and local weather info.
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Suresh Ramamoorthy
2 months ago
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theman
4 months ago
Could you help me with this on Ubuntu 12.04? I followed your previous tutorial and my main screen shows a blinking cursor, and my lilliput monitor shows a ubuntu splash screen.
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