The OU is using Kensington DisplayLink docking stations. They’re pretty nifty: one USB plug gets you internet, audio, and video. Under windows, that is :s.
After googling a bit, it turns out that DisplayLink did not release any drivers for the USB 3.0 version for Linux. Why? Because they support HDCP, a copy-protection measure for displays. And they have not (yet?) figured out how to preserve that type of copy protection and have open source drivers (nor, apparently, preserving that with closed-source drivers).
There’s at least one person looking into getting USB3 DisplayLink working via Linux. And it kind of sounds like he’s trying to hack HDCP in the process, just because he wants to use his hardware to actually do something. Ugh.
Thanks to:
– http://displaylink.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1748&page=16
– http://airlied.livejournal.com/80516.html