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There are some USB3 docking stations or USB3 to HDMI (or alike) adapters
based on UFX7000 chipset by SMSC -
http://www.smsc.com/Technologies/ViewSpan/UFX7000/Download

I have one adapter branded by Gembird. Compared to DisplayLink - there are drivers and it even can work on Linux (DisplayLink drivers exist only for older USB2 chipsets). There are some problems.
- The Xorg driver is available only on SMSC website
- you won'tdownload it untill they let you in, and to do that you have to give a lot of valid company data and hope they will accept it
- their packages are dated from 2011 so may become incompatible with modern systems


The release notes mention Ubuntu LTS 10.04 and Centos/RHEL 6 as tested and supported. You get RPMs and DEBs:
xf86-video-smsc_1.0.2.1-20111206_amd64.deb
xf86-video-smsc_1.0.2.1-20111206_i386.deb
viewspan_1.0.2.1-1_amd64.deb
viewspan_1.0.2.1-1_i386.deb

I managed it to work from LTS LiveCD. On my current 13.04 desktop xrandr
prevents it from working (release notes point out that their viewspan is
incompatible with it) even when having Xinerama config in xorg.conf (the
same thing worked from the LiveCD that does not have xrandr).

So it would be nice if big Ubuntu would try to talk to them about making
their drivers more available and more friendly with modern systems (and
XRandr for plug and play without xorg.conf hacking).

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Low
         Status: Incomplete


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Add SMSC x.org drivers for USB3 display adapters
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1176239
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