Writes: Four days ago, Apple's latest macOS 10.13.4 update (perhaps permanently), turning what may be hundreds of thousands of external monitors connected to MacBook Pros via DisplayLink into paperweights. Some days in, DisplayLink has yet to announce any solution, and most worryingly there are indications that this is to macOS moving forward. Mac Rumors is reporting that 'users of the popular Mac desktop extension app are, due to 'critical bugs' that prevent the software from communicating with connected iOS devices used as extra displays.' Users of other desktop extensions apps like and are also reporting incompatibility with the latest version of macOS. It's not a 'bit' overblown; it's pure hyperbole/clickbait. The issue is that the monitors will no longer work when they are connected through a third party peripheral with drivers that do some encapsulation. So, in other words, literally every single dock available for Macbook laptops (because apple do not make their own), and using the universally supported DisplayLink protocol, which is the standard on every single USB 3.0, 3.1, and C dock used in the Windows world, as well.

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This is all just overblown and no big deal. How the hell would a video driver actually damage a monitor?

It sounds like the article is being a bit overblown and really it's that the monitors simply can't work with MacOS anymore (but would work fine on any other computer.) Back in the day when people had to configure X (or xfree86) manually, there were warnings in the documentation about how the wrong settings could damage your monitor. You see, in the old days, the monitor didn't have any hardware in it to sanitize or limit its inputs. If the driver instructed the video card to send. I think it was refresh pulses, to the monitor at a rate too high for the monitor, it could overdrive the circuits responsible for refreshing the screen. (You know how CRTs work, right? I must have macOS 10.13.4 to run the version of Xcode that allows me to develop for iOS 11.3.

Rolling back my OS, even if I wanted to which I don't, is not an option. My options are 1. Wait for a fix, again I might add, DisplayLink died on the last macOS update as well. Buy a USB video adapter from another more reliable source.

While I don't want to go spend potentially hundreds, I also will not accept that a thousand dollar monitor is now sitting blank. I should mention as a macOS and iOS developer, as others have that macOS has a beta program and you could easily have identified this issue weeks ago. Also as a developer, I will always need to update to the new macOS and xCode on the day of their release. This issue is already 4 days old, waiting on an update from Apple is 100% unacceptable. Having this issue even crop up in the first place is about 98% unacceptable. Who makes a good USB video adapter capable of between 1080p and 2k? I'll have an answer to this in the next 10 minutes.

My relationship with DisplayLink that has lasted years is within 48 hours of being over. Nothing personal, but this is simply untenable. Yes, blame a peripheral manufacturer for thinking that an update (10.13.3 -10.13.4) wouldn't do something like break the subsystem that their drivers depend on.

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Couldn't possibly expect Apple to put some more QA on macOS updates and stop treating the OS like it's a legacy product WRT support. Dude, I get why you're upset. Your livelihood has just been hit by Apple.

However, you should be blaming Apple for doing stupid shit like breaking your drivers in an update and then forcing you to have that particular point release to run an IDE. You want proof that Apple is now firmly a cult? People would be howling from the rafters if Visual Studio updates required a highly particular set of bleeding edge patches from Microsoft to run. No one outside of the SCADA space would tolerate this level of tied-at-the-hip releasing.

I must have macOS 10.13.4 to run the version of Xcode that allows me to develop for iOS 11.3. Rolling back my OS, even if I wanted to which I don't, is not an option. My options are 1. Wait for a fix, again I might add, DisplayLink died on the last macOS update as well. Buy a USB video adapter from another more reliable source. While I don't want to go spend potentially hundreds, I also will not accept that a thousand dollar monitor is now sitting blank. I should mention as a macOS and iOS developer, as others have that macOS has a beta program and you could easily have identified this issue weeks ago.

Also as a developer, I will always need to update to the new macOS and xCode on the day of their release. This issue is already 4 days old, waiting on an update from Apple is 100% unacceptable. Having this issue even crop up in the first place is about 98% unacceptable. Who makes a good USB video adapter capable of between 1080p and 2k? I'll have an answer to this in the next 10 minutes.

My relationship with DisplayLink that has lasted years is within 48 hours of being over. Nothing personal, but this is simply untenable. Yes, blame a peripheral manufacturer for thinking that an update (10.13.3 -10.13.4) wouldn't do something like break the subsystem that their drivers depend on. Couldn't possibly expect Apple to put some more QA on macOS updates and stop treating the OS like it's a legacy product WRT support.

Dude, I get why you're upset. Your livelihood has just been hit by Apple. However, you should be blaming Apple for doing stupid shit like breaking your drivers in an update and then forcing you to have that particular point release to run an IDE. You want proof that Apple is now firmly a cult? People would be howling from the rafters if Visual Studio updates required a highly particular set of bleeding edge patches from Microsoft to run.

No one outside of the SCADA space would tolerate this level of tied-at-the-hip releasing. It should have been asked by any professional long ago what exactly their intent is to support ANY 3rd party. The latest I/O changes make it VERY clear they want you running running hardware made by Apple, Apple, Apple, or Apple. Between that and removing a headphone jack standard in favor of their proprietary bullshit, I will likely have nothing to do with them going forward.

Their arrogance has become too much for the professional world which demands a certain level of interoperability. I'm fucking surprised they haven't been arrogant enough to create their own voltage standard in order to sell iPower transformers to everyone who dares not run at 77V/127hz. Wake up professionals and stop giving them money. They clearly have little intention of supporting you in the long run.

Their arrogance has become too much for the professional world which demands a certain level of interoperability. There are many examples in the software / hardware community of exactly this, why are you complaining about Apple?.

Microsoft XBox is an entry-level PC with a Palladium chip. There is no technical reason a PC (with certain minimum specs) couldn't be used instead.

But you must buy Microsoft's locked-down PC. You may not use that PC for other tasks or install other software on it. This is an example of artificially created vendor hardware lock-in. Microsoft software in the Enterprise often has inter.now if i could magically find the right kernel options to compile a debian kernel that both boots and supports my video card, i'll be relatively happy.

Oh yeah, don't use Xfce if you use displayport and want to turn your monitor off and back on; you're welcome. Is rather self-contradictory. So, the problem with Apple is that it doesn't support some external monitors, and therefore Debian is better except it doesn't support some external monitors. Unless that was intended as irony? It does read like irony. On the internet it is hard to tell.

No, debian just makes it difficult to get the exact source and build environment used for compiling the stock kernel, which makes it difficult to use up-to-date proprietary nvidia drivers. I don't know why this is, but it can be worked around.

I don't particularly enjoy working around it, but i can, slowly. With Apple, i increasing don't have that option. And i'm currently using ubuntu which, apart from a few hiccups, works. Strictly speaking, i can't use nvidia on Apple either (well, at least. Having sound and wifi flake out every time you upgrade the kernel. But more seriously, having a high-level scripting language which is deeply integrated with the GUI has been handy more than once (despite applescript having the worst syntax since cobol). Also tools like mac os' 'open' should just be standard, imho.

Yes, this can all be replicated, but it'll be a bodgy hack which will break within a year because your distribution moves from one hacked-up framework to another one. From my experience, some people. The reason there’s no mention of DisplayLink is because DisplayLink isn’t part of the system any more than Adobe Flash or other unsupported third-party products are. I suspect that you and many others may be confused and thinking of DisplayPort instead. DisplayLink is a third-party company that I know as one that produces chips and drivers for use in USB devices that allows those devices (e.g. Adapters or hubs) to appear as displays to the computer.

I used a USB adapter of theirs to add a third monitor to a computer that only had video outputs for two monitors, and it worked okay for the most part, so long as you didn’t breathe or look at it funny, and so long as you were okay with the advertised 1080p being at about 5-10 Hz, making it suitable for web browsing static pages and not much else. The whole setup was incredibly brittle and seemed as if it was built of top of a pile of hacks, since I had it stop working more than once in the few years that I was using it. Driver updates to my Windows partition would break it. Driver updates to my Mac partition would break it. Driver updates to the device itself wouldn’t always fix it.

Occasionally you’d plug it in or just turn everything back on after being off for the night and it just wouldn’t work, even though nothing had changed. My experience using DisplayLink products years ago was poor enough that I stopped using them as soon as it was practical to do so. Blaming Apple is a deflection from the real issue: it sounds as if their product is still built on top of a pile of brittle hacks and that their QA is still as poor as it was years ago. I was able to make it work because I was only using it for personal use; I couldn’t imagine anyone trying to use their stuff in a business environment. Why is this a binary choice?

A pox on both of their houses. Tunnel vision, caused by an abnormally passionate, visceral hatred of Apple. Yeah Apple screwed up, so does everybody, but there is a whole bunch of people here who should wipe the froth off their mouths, go to the doctor for a rabies shot and then get over themselves. I've had Microsoft updates brick computers, corrupt databases, destroy large and important Office documents and I've had Linux updates mess up my file system, irrecoverably screw up several virtual machines.

The list goes on. It's annoying but it happens, that's why we make sequential backups at frequent intervals.

It may SEEM like a minor Update; but it rolled-out eGPU support for macOS; so OBVIOUSLY there were some fairly 'deep' changes to the whole Display Framework; so, breaking a couple of THIRD PARTY display products is pretty much a foreseeable thing. According to the version number, it IS a minor update. That's why we call that digit the MINOR VERSION. The fact that Apple (probably unwisely) ignored their versioning policies and chose to roll out a major kernel-level feature in a software update doesn't change the fact that this is a software update, not a version upgrade, and software updates normally do NOT break things — particularly drivers. The whole reason Apple users are so willing to blindly install every software update, but drag their heels on major version upgrades, is that the former are expected not to break things, and the latter often do.

When things like this happen, it undermines the perception of Apple as a quality software vendor, and runs the risk of leaving users vulnerable to serious security flaws because they feared installing some minor update that would have fixed it. On the flip side, I looked into DisplayLink-based hardware a few years ago, and the sheer number of complaints about the drivers being displaylink.com left me so disgusted that I didn't go down that path. And they still haven't fixed those problems after what, four years? So when I heard that it broke completely in a software update, my response was 'must be Tuesday.' Then, I realized it was Wednesday, and I was slightly alarmed, but only slightly, and only because today feels like Tuesday for some reason. Actually, Apple had already announced that eGPU support was 'Coming Soon' when they released High Sierra. So this is simply Apple doing a little ':catch-up' Development, rather than roling-out an entirely-new Platform Feature, such as say, AirPlay.

And you WILL notice that only TWO Display Vendors were affected, and one (Duet), was already on top of the situation, telling their Customers to wait on the Upgrade until Duet and Apple work things out. The difference being, the Duet Devs. Are REASONABLE, and actu. So, just HOW many THIRD PARTY display products SHOULD Apple test with?!? More than zero? Displaylink isn't some little rinkydink monitor maker, they are the driver framework that something like 99.9% of all USB monitor vendors use.

They should test against Displaylink at the very least. It's only driver technology that has been around for a decode or so.

As for why have one of these monitors? Easy, only having to use one single cable since they are also USB powered. It makes it quite easy and clutter free to have a second monitor on the go. Much as I hate to agree with TheFakeTimCook, that's pretty much accurate. Even I can't play devil's advocate here. Their Mac drivers have been crap for many years.

It is also relatively unsurprising that Apple didn't test their hardware. USB monitors are quite rare, in large part because USB 2.0 just wasn't fast enough to provide a good experience, and USB 3.0 usually shares a port with Thunderbolt, which can carry DisplayPort data without the need for software-based compression or custom drivers. The only place their technology really makes sense is in products designed for use with tablets and smartphones (which lack DisplayPort/Thunderbolt). To be blunt, we're rapidly heading towards a future in which the entire concept of tunneling video over USB no longer makes sense, and it already makes no sense when you're talking about computer-based operating systems, making these devices thoroughly legacy hardware.

I assume that the chipset manufacturer recognizes this, and won't spend much time or effort trying to improve the quality of the drivers. Thus, we should expect the drivers to degrade more and more until they become completely unsupported/unusable.

IMO, the best thing they can do for their users would be to open source their entire driver and software stack so that people who still care about maintaining compatibility can continue to hack on it in their spare time. In the meantime, they need to find a new niche if the company wants to stay in business long-term, because this niche is rapidly ceasing to have significant value in the marketplace. They display 4k. Not sure what more features you want? TVs have their color balance usually optimized for highlighting stuff that matters in movies, sports and stuff. Professional displays tend to be optimized for absurdly accurate colors, so that you can visually notice the difference between #A78B15 and #A88C14.

They also tend to have a bigger colors range than normal displays have, being literally capable of showing many colors that exist in paper but most displays aren't capable of showing. For most people those features aren't necessary, so it'd be nonsensi. The cheap display will most likely support HDMI and DisplayPort. You can drive it via the in-built GPU on your graphics card.

With the latest macOS, you can also use eGPU, which means an external GPU connected via PCIe over Thunderbolt, so you get a more powerful GPU in an enclosure that's easier to cool. Or you can get a DisplayLink piece of crap, which uses USB and a weird hodgepodge of software or render-to-texture in the GPU then pulls the data out, compresses it and sends it over a proprietary proto. I have the most expensive Macbook available when I bought it. I have two offices, and each has a 48-49' UHD TV - one Vizio and the other LG. Both do 4:4:4, and I can plug the HDMI cable straight from my laptop to the display and get full UHD at 30Hz, which is find for programming and youtube videos. The laptop is fully capable of driving full-screen 2180p videos from youtube or vimeo.

Anybody who buys an overpriced computer monitor at this point is clueless. The 'televisions' that I use (one of which doe.

Also as a developer, I will always need to update to the new macOS and xCode on the day of their release. I'm so freaking sick of this crap. Fuck 'rolling releases'. That is the same level of utter stupidity which PLAGUES everything from corporate to OSS.

UNIX, nor Linux (yes, even GNU/LInux), was like this. It wasn't until Apple pinheads did it become 'normal'. Windows just calls them 'Patch Tuesdays', and have been doing the same thing and with NO vast Beta Test Program, and regularly BREAKING things, for DECADES. People would be howling from the rafters if Visual Studio updates required a highly particular set of bleeding edge patches from Microsoft to run. You don't actually use VisualStudio do you?

Its been pretty fucked up in this respect for the last couple years. Its tied to.NET releases which ARE tied to OS releases now days. Contrast DisplayLink's hand-waving with the similar 'Don't Upgrade Yet' notice by the Duet display software publishers, who were obviously already on top of the situation, had already contacted Apple to work with them on a solution, and took a much less breathless 'These things happen, we'll get it fixed' mindset. The truth of the matter is, DisplayLink driver support for OS X has always been rather shoddy. I purchased a $100 or so docking station a while back, from 'j5create' (who makes a lot of products that specifically claim Mac compatibility). They rely on rebranded/customized DisplayLink drivers to make their video ports on their docks work. When I installed the latest Mac drivers from them for it, I found out that screen rotation wasn't supported - so I couldn't use my second display that was rotated to 'portr.

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