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ASUS ZenScreen MB16AC USB-C Portable Monitor

Written by Michael Larabel in Monitors on 28 June 2017 at 04:13 PM EDT. Page 2 of 4. 23 Comments.

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ASUS advertises the ZenScreen as being supported under both Windows and macOS. Going into this testing, I wasn't sure if the MB16AC would work at all with Linux.

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When first plugging the display into a Linux box via USB Type-C, there was no display and immediately was a message about the system not supporting DisplayPort Alt (Alternate) Mode and to install a driver. When looking at the dmesg and lsusb output, the ZenScreen is powered by DisplayLink tech.

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DisplayLink's USB 3.0 hardware doesn't have any open-source driver sadly but there is a binary driver. DisplayLink officially supports Ubuntu LTS releases as their Linux targets, but there are community-generated spins of this binary driver for Arch Linux and other platforms.

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For this testing I installed the DisplayLink v1.3.54 driver on a few systems running Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS. After doing so and rebooting, the display still didn't light up... when using USB Type-C. But when using the USB 3.0 adapter to plug it into a conventional USB port, it worked right away.

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So with the DisplayLink binary Linux driver, it's possible to get the ZenScreen MB16AC working, while the DisplayPort Alternate Mode support is currently lacking.

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