DisplayLink Mac OS X Software Release Note
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DisplayLink Mac OS X Software Release: External Release Note
Version: 1.6b3 (27768)
Date: 21st September 2010
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Improvements over the DisplayLink Mac OS X Software 1.5 release include:

    * Snow Leopard (64 Bit) Support
    * Enabled rotated resolutions on Mac OS X 10.6.3+
    * Resolved a GUI freeze issue when resuming from sleep on some systems

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 Snow Leopard 10.6.4 (32 and 64 bit versions), Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 and Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11.

Note that at the time of writing these were the latest available versions of Mac OS X tested against.


B. Supported Mac platforms
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This software supports all Intel-based Macs. There is an important issue on i5 and i7 MacBook Pros with switchable graphics, please see below for details.

***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 1.6b3 Release:

 - Resolved a GUI freeze issue when resuming from sleep on some systems
 - Removed the 0x0 resolution in the resolution list for DisplayLink displays
 - Decreased the verbosity of some logging in system.log and kernel.log

Issues fixed in DisplayLink Mac OS X Software 1.6b2 Release:

 - Enabled rotated resolutions on Mac OS X 10.6.3+

Issues fixed in DisplayLink Mac OS X Software 1.6b1 Release:

 - DisplayLink driver now supports Snow Leopard 64 Bit



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 and iPhoto slideshows, will not function properly.

    * 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.
      Disabling of automatic graphics switching can help working around this issue.
      More information is available at http://www.displaylink.com/support/ticket.php?id=300

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.