My display drivers are now gone after rebooting with Monterey. How do i find them

MontereyBugs wrote:

My display drivers are now gone after rebooting with Monterey. How do i find them

My display drivers are now gone after rebooting with Monterey. How do i find themMy display drivers are now gone after rebooting with Monterey. How do i find themMy display drivers are now gone after rebooting with Monterey. How do i find them

On macOS, the user never has to deal with display drivers. Why are you even looking for them? Please elaborate on what problem you have.

Hi MontereyBugs,

Are you getting an error when connecting your display? If so, what is the specific error? Also, let's complete the steps listed here: If your external display isn't detected or appears blurry when connected to your Mac to try to resolve the issue.

Cheers!

It looks like you need the "DisplayLink" software.

I am not sure how it "disappeared", but it would need to be updated, anywhere.

Check here: https://www.synaptics.com/products/displaylink-graphics/downloads/macos

We are talking about low level drivers. It is not like you had an application in your Applications folder, and it disappeared after an OS update. That doesn't happen.

Things like DisplayLink tie into the OS at a very low level in order to provide their functionality, and hence they often need to be updated when a new OS comes along.

There is one other factor at play, in the perception that a new OS "breaks" things. There can and have been bugs, but, for the most part, problems come down to old stuff like drivers, system extensions, launch daemons, sometimes stuff that the user installed while running, say, El Capitan. It is so easy to upgrade in place that users tend to do so for many years, OS after OS, and mac after mac. After a while, it is almost inevitable that something will break, and then of course people blame Apple, rather than their own lack of due diligence. It is recommendable that at every major OS, you do a clean install, migrate your accounts, and then install the applications fresh. This way you won't end up with, say, Perian (which was discontinued some eight years ago), or other old stuff breaking your system. [Note: I am using Perian just as an example; it was a very useful piece of software back in the day; the developers clearly stated it had been discontinued, and it cease to work several iterations of the OS ago, and yet... I have seen people still having it in their systems in 2022. The same with, say, Silverlight, or even Flash....]

It's perfectly acceptable to ask only once.

What display? Attached or external?

What's the exact nature of your problem? If your Mac is operating normally, the old drivers may not have been needed.

Or, you may need to get updated Monterey compatible drivers for an external monitor.

Use this guide to better state your actual problem: Writing an effective Apple Support Commun… - Apple Community

Is this a New Issue ? If Yes, what exactly changed on this computer ?

Is this an Old Issue ? If Yes, what actions has the user taken to fix this issue ?

After all,  we do not what to suggest possible solutions for what has already been attempted by the User 

Understand, we are all working Remotely from all around the world. 

Therefore, we do not have the On-Hands experience the User ( you ) has with this computer.

Reliable , accurate, details and context will really help to pinpoint a possible solution.

This is third party software that interacts with the system at a somewhat low level and, as such, it is reasonable to expect that it may require an update when the system has a major upgrade (like in going from Big Sur to Monterey, for example).

Besides, this has been the case in previous upgrades and, at times, even at some midyear system updates.