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what is this for?
displaylink
hah yeah I mean why is this like an external module?
some non-free part of the spec or something?
right, non-free
not upstream
what do I lose by not having this?
Displaylink support
It was an issue opened by a user that got us to add it
how does fedora work with displayport without this though?
Hold on, brain fart
Displaylink
DisplayLink | Synaptics
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oh so is this like on the steam deck dock?
Not even there, just some lapdocks, third party docks, and external displays over USB
It's somewhat common
oh, looks like we don't add it to the asus images
so I can have them try an asus image and if it's evdi then that might be a way to rule it out?
oh but that swaps out the kernel 😕
Could try unloading evdi kernel module
Without swapping images
And disabling the DisplayLink service
recommending that in the issue