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BradSP Author

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10.13.4 Displaylink no longer working

After upgrading to 10.13.4 my display link monitors no longer function. I've tried updating the displaylink drivers but this does not return the functionality to display multiple monitors that existed in 10.13.3. As a consequence I had to roll back to 10.13.3 to get my monitors to function again. This rollback also confirms that the issue appears to be in 10.13.4. I've got a very large number of MACs that I can not permit this upgrade to be deployed to in my enterprise as it will cause enormous support issues. Does some one have a fix as to how to get this minor bug fix update to function with displaylink?

MacBook Pro TouchBar and Touch ID, macOS High Sierra (10.13.3)

Posted on Mar 30, 2018 2:54 PM

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BradSP Author

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Posted on Mar 30, 2018 4:37 PM

JPyre,

If you think that display link does not work on 10.13 then your mistaken as I am currently typing this on 10.13.3 with Display link. While Displaylink docks are cheaper its the reason why they are commercially accepted by business such as yours (and mine) in the first place. The fact that Apple does not recognise this fact isolates them from the enterprise eco-system and as you have pointed out now results in our company needing to utilise much more expensive products just to support Apple in an enterprise. Given that Apple is the minority in Enterprise asking to spend additional funding just results in the phase out of apple machines in this environment. Instead of ignoring the ecosystem that the devices are used within Apple needs to embrace it to get growth and acceptance.

So I suppose your solution is to spend $500AU or roughly 20% of the price of my MAC on getting a thunderbolt 3 dock as the solution rather than Apple continue to support the software in 10.13.3 that works and functions with Displaylink?? This is a point release and the release notes do not call out that they are breaking functionality. Fine for a major release but an item that is intended to be a bug fix should not cease existing use.

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