displaylink: 5.8.0-63.33 -> 6.0.0-24

[GeoffreyFrogeye]

Description of changes

Changelog from the archive:

C.9 Changes in 6.0 release

• DL-7xxx: Support for DP++ (HDMI) video
• DL-7xxx: Added Unigraf UCD-400/500 for DisplayPort compliance testing
• DL-6xxx series: incorrect image at 2560x1440@60 on some DisplayPort monitors
• Added preliminary support for kernel 6.9
• General stability updates and bug fixes

C.8 Changes in 5.9 release

• Drop support for Ubuntu 18.04

Things done

• Built on platform(s)
  • x86_64-linux
  • aarch64-linux
• For non-Linux: Is sandboxing enabled in nix.conf? (See Nix manual)
  • sandbox = relaxed
  • sandbox = true
• Tested, as applicable:
  • NixOS test(s) (look inside nixos/tests)
  • and/or package tests
  • or, for functions and "core" functionality, tests in lib/tests or pkgs/test
  • made sure NixOS tests are linked to the relevant packages
• Tested compilation of all packages that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review rev HEAD". Note: all changes have to be committed, also see nixpkgs-review usage
• Tested basic functionality of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
• 24.11 Release Notes (or backporting 23.11 and 24.05 Release notes)
  • (Package updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is major or breaking
  • (Module updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is significant
  • (Module addition) Added a release notes entry if adding a new NixOS module
• Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

Confirmed working with a 17e9:4318 DisplayLink Dell USB 3.0 Dock.

This is a major release in the semver sense of the term, but I'm not sure whether it is worth adding an entry in the release notes.

I am not super familiar with the package, so I haven't looked deeply whether more needs updating, but I figured this would be a starting point.

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[GeoffreyFrogeye]

If I'm not mistaken ofborg should have requested a review from the package maintainers, maybe it didn't do so because I force-pushed while it was still running? So, uh, ping @abbradar

[toastal]

This builds & runs for me, but we should be wary that evdi current isn’t compatible with linux_testing @ v6.10.0-rc* DisplayLink/evdi#469

[montchr]

This also builds and runs for me on aarch64-linux. Thank you!

FWIW: after updating NixOS sometime in the past couple weeks, I encountered a severe (unusable) lag on my external monitor, which I can only use via a DisplayLink hub. I am running GNOME Desktop via nixos-unstable on a MacBook Air M2 (https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-apple-silicon/). Unfortunately for me, updating to DisplayLink 6.0.0-24 did not resolve the issue, so it's probably related to my configuration.

[montchr]

This builds & runs for me, but we should be wary that evdi current isn’t compatible with linux_testing @ v6.10.0-rc* DisplayLink/evdi#469

Looks like they released a fix in v1.14.5, though they did not actually close the issue.

DisplayLink/evdi#469 (comment)

[karlskewes]

FWIW a separate PR #324121 updating to 6.0 has been merged.