Hope that background helps! If you subscribe to our RSS feed ( ) or twitter ( !/plugable) we’ll be posting updates about Lion compatibility for all our devices, as the dust settles.Īnd if anyone needs any help with their particular Plugable product, please email anytime. ' If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Continue.
' Right-click ' Command prompt ,' and then select ' Run as Administrator.
Click the Windows icon in the bottom-left corner, and search for ' cmd. Without this, the login screen won’t render correctly – a nasty problem.Īnd if you get stuck with that blank login, you’ll want to boot the Mac into safe mode (here’s how: ), run the uninstaller in Applications/DisplayLink (here’s how: … ), and then make that change to power settings before re-installing again.īut by changing the power settings first, you’ll be able to avoid the problem completely, and we don’t currently have any reports of any other major issues. These advanced steps allow the DisplayLink driver to install. The most important caveat/limitation we know of now with Lion, is that anyone with a hybrid graphics Mac (dual Intel/nVidia, etc.), must go into their energy saver preferences, and set graphics to “higher performance” before installing the DisplayLink drivers.
#PLUGABLE DISPLAYLINK DRIVER FOR MAC REGISTRATION#
So if you have an earlier DisplayLink Mac driver, you *must* uninstall before upgrading to Lion.įortunately, DisplayLink was able to release an updated 1.7 beta 2 driver which fixes these problems, with some caveats (version 1.7 b2 is available here … and for direct download without registration here … )Īll of our Plugable UGA graphics devices, including the UGA-2K-A, use DisplayLink’s technology and work with all driver updates directly from DisplayLink.
#PLUGABLE DISPLAYLINK DRIVER FOR MAC DRIVERS#
Lion originally broke all DisplayLink-based devices (the only USB graphics devices that have Mac drivers at all for now), including ours. The short answer is it can be made to work today, but less adventurous users may want to wait for a next driver update. Thanks for posting! We’ve been bracing for a flood of Mac questions today, as you might imagine…
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