The Asus MB168B+ is a very nice portable monitor, and it would be a shame if it weren’t possible to use it with Ubuntu ;)
Download the Ubuntu driver and extract it somewhere.
Open up a terminal, and navigate to that folder. Then launch these commands:
./displaylink-driver-1.0.138.run --keep --noexec
cd displaylink-driver-1.0.138/
Then type nano displaylink-installer.sh to edit the installer file (if you don’t like nano, use your favourite text editor!).
Change this:
#!/bin/bash
detect_distro()
{
if which lsb_release >/dev/null; then
local R=$(lsb_release -d -s)
echo \"Distribution discovered: $R\"
if [ -z \"${R##Ubuntu 14.*}\" ]; then
SYSTEMINITDAEMON=upstart
elif [ -z \"${R##Ubuntu 15.04*}\" ]; then
SYSTEMINITDAEMON=systemd
fi
else
echo \"WARNING: Unknown distribution, assuming defaults - this may fail.\" >&2
fi
}
To this:
#!/bin/bash
detect_distro()
{
if which lsb_release >/dev/null; then
local R=$(lsb_release -d -s)
echo \"Distribution discovered: $R\"
SYSTEMINITDAEMON=systemd
fi
}
And then run:
sudo ./displaylink-installer.sh install
Your monitor should be working now!
p.s. this procedure should work to install the driver in distros other than Ubuntu!