Displaylink.service failed

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Hey Everyone, I am new to the world of linux and i found a similar thread on the form that didnt work for me. I have a tagrus USB dock that uses displaylink however when i follow along the archWiki. I get stuck on step2 the enable step…

THE ERROR I GET:


Job for displaylink.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status displaylink.service" and "journalctl -xeu displaylink.service" for details.

SYSTEMCTL STATUS DISPLAYLINK.SERVICE:

● displaylink.service - DisplayLink Manager Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/displaylink.service; disabled; vendor preset: d>
     Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2021-10-05 12:06:37 EDT>
    Process: 24554 ExecStartPre=/sbin/modprobe evdi (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 2ms
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JOURNALCTL-XEU DISPLAYLINK.SERVICE:

░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
░░ 
░░ A start job for unit displaylink.service has begun execution.
░░ 
░░ The job identifier is 33183.
Oct 05 12:07:34 minnow modprobe[24572]: modprobe: FATAL: Module evdi not found in directory >
Oct 05 12:07:34 minnow systemd[1]: displaylink.service: Control process exited, code=exited,>
░░ Subject: Unit process exited
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
░░ 
░░ An ExecStartPre= process belonging to unit displaylink.service has exited.
░░ 
░░ The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 1.
Oct 05 12:07:34 minnow systemd[1]: displaylink.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
░░ Subject: Unit failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
░░ 
░░ The unit displaylink.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 05 12:07:34 minnow systemd[1]: Failed to start DisplayLink Manager Service.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit displaylink.service has failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
░░ 
░░ A start job for unit displaylink.service has finished with a failure.
░░ 
░░ The job identifier is 33183 and the job result is failed.

It says “Module evdi not found in directory” but i know i installed it… is there a different version that i need?

Thanks ahead of time for any help/comments

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try in terminal:

systemctl enable displaylink.service

systemctl start displaylink.service

Then check the status with

systemctl  status displaylink.service
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heres what i got when i did that.

    ~  systemctl enable displaylink.service                                          ✔ 
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/graphical.target.wants/displaylink.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/displaylink.service.
    ~  systemctl start displaylink.service                                    ✔  4s  
Job for displaylink.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status displaylink.service" and "journalctl -xeu displaylink.service" for details.
    ~  systemctl status displaylink.service                                        1 ✘ 
● displaylink.service - DisplayLink Manager Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/displaylink.service; enabled; vendor preset: di>
     Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2021-10-06 06:01:41 EDT>
    Process: 10652 ExecStartPre=/sbin/modprobe evdi (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 2ms
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Maybe this thread will be helpful . It was solved in post#7. Are the Kernel headers installed on your system?

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so i tried to reinstall evdi and i got this…

Warning, `dkms install --no-depmod -m evdi -v 1.9.1 -k 5.13.19-2-MANJARO' returned 10
==> depmod 5.13.19-2-MANJARO
==> Unable to install module evdi/1.9.1 for kernel 4.9.283-1-MANJARO: Missing kernel modules tree.
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see comment # 1
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/evdi/

maybe try evdi-git

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Ahh that worked… I dont know how i didnt see that… Thank you for your help!!

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