Dell Universal Dock D6000 on ubuntu

dell-D6000-dock-ubuntu.md

Caveats

• NOTE: I had to reboot after doing this to eliminate display artifacts.
• Also, the dock doesn't appear to support using both of the displayport ports simultaneously :'(
• And MST (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#Multi-Stream_Transport_(MST) ) doesn't seem to work on this dock, so you can't daisy chain monitors.

TLDR

1. download driver from http://www.displaylink.com/downloads/ubuntu
2. unpack

unzip DisplayLink\ USB\ Graphics\ Software\ for\ Ubuntu\ 4.4.zip

3. install dependencies

sudo apt install dkms

4. install displaylink

cd DisplayLink\ USB\ Graphics\ Software\ for\ Ubuntu\ 4.4
# set script executable
chmod +x ./displaylink-driver-4.4.24.run
# run it
sudo ./displaylink-driver-4.4.24.run

References

Dock

Main info page for the device: https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/sln308795/dell-universal-dock-d6000-technical-specifications-and-usage-guide?lang=en

Driver download page

http://www.displaylink.com/downloads/ubuntu

Information on installing the displaylink driver

https://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/684649-how-to-install-displaylink-software-on-ubuntu

First I changed both default.pa and system.pa like so: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DisplayLink#Displays_disconnect_at_random_intervals_when_using_the_Dell_D6000_docking_station

Then I changed my Nvidia driver from proprietary to Nouveau.

Somewhere in here my monitors started working with no graphics issues or docking station disconnects.