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DisplayLink Releases Beta Driver For Mac OS X
Monday, March 31, 2008 - 3:26 PM EST
Posted by: Brian
We mentioned back in January that DisplayLink planned on bringing their USB display technology over to the Mac. Well, it looks like they finally released their first beta driver for Mac OS X today.
According to the company, "DisplayLink USB devices are the easiest way to add an additional monitor to your Mac. This driver, with the relevant DisplayLink-powered hardware, will allow any Intel-based Mac - even a Mac Mini or MacBook Air - to connect up to 4 monitors over USB. This driver also supports the USB video of our customers' USB docking station products, giving you a cost-effective and easy way to connect your display and all of your peripherals to your MacBook, MacBook Pro, or MacBook Air, with only one USB 2.0 cable."
Here is a full list of the supported devices:
 Kensington sd200v
Kensington Notebook Expansion Dock with Video
IOGEAR External Graphics Card VGA
Samsung 940UX UbiSync
Samsung UbiSync7
Toshiba Dynadock
LG L206WU
Ratoc REX-USBDVI Multi Display Adapter
Rextron XtraViU
Goodway USB to VGA (AN24X0)
Goodway USB to DVI (AN24X0)
Goodway Docking Station with Video (VGA) (DU2771N1)
Goodway Docking Station with Video (DVI) (DU2781N1)
Sewell USB Graphics Adapter
I-O DATA USB-RGB
I-O DATA USB-RGB/D
DT Research Tablet Cradle
WS Tech USB Multi-Display
EVGA UV Plus+ (UV+12/UV+16)
DisplayLink Merlin/Merlin-DVI Evaluation Board
DisplayLink Kestrel Evaluation Board
DisplayLink Hawk Evaluation Board
DisplayLink Osprey Evaluation Board
The DisplayLink software can be installed on any Intel-based Mac running client versions of Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11 or Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2. You can view the release notes here for more information. There are some issues with 2D acceleration and OpenGL 3D acceleration that you'll probably want to read about.
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