DisplayLink Mac OS X Software Release Note
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DisplayLink Mac OS X Software Release: External Release Note
Version: 1.7 (35806)
Date: 2nd December 2011
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Improvements over the DisplayLink Mac OS X Software 1.6 release include:

    * Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) Support
    * Improved logging
    * Bug fixes
    
A full list of fixed and known issues can be found in the "Fixed Issues" and "Known Issues" sections below.

More information on how to use this software can be found in the Mac OS X User Guide found on the DisplayLink website (http://www.displaylink.com/mac)

Contents
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A. Supported OSes
B. Supported Mac Platforms
C. Language Support
D. Supported Hardware
E. Fixed Issues
F. Known Issues


A. Supported Operating Systems
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The DisplayLink software can be installed on any Intel-based desktop or laptop Apple Mac computer running client versions of Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2, Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 (32 and 64 bit versions), Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 and Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11.

At the time of writing these were the latest available versions of Mac OS X tested against: later OS versions might show compatibility issues.


B. Supported Mac platforms
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This software supports all Intel-based Macs.

***It does not support Power-PC based Macs.***


C. Language support
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The DisplayLink software installer is localised in the following languages:

- English
- French
- German
- Dutch
- Italian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- Polish
- Hungarian
- Russian
- Traditional Chinese
- Simplified Chinese
- Japanese
- Korean


D. Supported Hardware
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- DL115 / DL125 / DL165 / DL195 devices are supported.
- DL120 / DL160 devices are supported.


E. Fixed Issues
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Issues fixed in DisplayLink Mac OS X Software 1.7 Release:

    - On Lion (10.7.x) systems with NVIDIA 9400M/9600M GPUs a dragged item (icon, window) cannot be released. Apple has been informed of this issue. A workaround is available in DisplayLink drivers since version 1.7. The workaround is disabled if the System Preferences->General->Security->Require password after screen saver begins setting is set to "immediately".
    - Support 1920x1200 modes on specific DisplayLink products
    - High CPU utilisation by the DisplayLinkManager process on some systems (12188)
    - Login stuck when DisplayLink screen connected in some configurations (12112)
    - DisplayLink screens don't power off at display sleep (5874, 12031)
    - Compatibility issue on Mac OS X 10.7.0 (Lion) Preview 4 with NVIDIA GPUs
    - DisplayLink driver now supports Mac OS X 10.7.0 (Lion) Preview 4


F. Known Issues
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This is a DisplayLink driver release that supports 2D acceleration on Mac OS X platforms.
This software has some limitations:

    * No 3D (OpenGL) acceleration - some features of Mac OS X applications that require hardware OpenGL acceleration, such as Keynote presentations, will not function properly.

    * On Lion (10.7.x) systems with NVIDIA 9400M/9600M GPUs some applications don't render any graphics on DisplayLink screens. To work around this issue turn off "Automatic Graphics Switching". This issue has been fixed by Apple in 10.7.2.

    * On Lion (10.7.x) systems with NVIDIA 9400M/9600M GPUs a dragged item (icon, window) cannot be released. Apple has been informed of this issue. A workaround is available in DisplayLink drivers since version 1.7. The workaround is disabled if the System Preferences->General->Security->Require password after screen saver begins setting is set to "immediately".
    
    * On Mac OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) it's not possible to screen capture the content of DisplayLink screens. This issue has been fixed by Apple in OS X 10.7.0.

    * Colour calibration does not work with DisplayLink enabled displays on Mac OS X versions prior to 10.6.2
    
    * The primary screen becomes corrupted or other issues are seen when using the DisplayLink Mac driver on Core i5/i7 systems.
      This issue has been resolved by Apple in Mac OS X 10.6.5.
      
Note: Applications that require Quartz\OpenGL\hardware acceleration support will likely exhibit problems with this version of DisplayLink software. Some problems can be avoided by making sure the DisplayLink display is not set to be the main display (the display with the menu bar). If an application refuses to launch when a DisplayLink display is present, try to disconnect all the DisplayLink displays, then launch it and then reconnect the displays.