RHEL7 with 3.10 kernel steps about displaylink-rpm HOT 7 CLOSED

You should not install the src.rpm but instead the rpm for your architecture. Installing a src.rpm will only put the specfiles and related content into the appropriate rpmbuild folders.

If make does not cause any trouble to you, then you should find an RPM for your architecture (32-bit or 64-bit), which is the one you should install.

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If you're using RHEL7, would it work with our centos7 binary release?

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It did not like that the RHEL7 kernel was 3.10.x unfortunately upon trying the .rpm versus the .src.rpm.

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Didn't it work either with your own built rpm?
As I understand, you ran make on this repo, which should have compiled the rpm besides creating the .src.rpm.

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It is missing the "evdi" module it seems when doing the .src.rpm method as noted initially.

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When you install a src.rpm file you do not actually build anything. You are just installing the sources, but not the actual module you need. You must build it separately.

The src.rpm can just be used to build the actual rpm. Instead of that, you can go all the way to building the binary rpm from this repo by typing make from the root of this folder.

If the resulting RPM does not like the fact that you are using a newer kernel you may need to downgrade evdi/displaylink versions until a point in the past where they support such kernel version.

But once again, you need to build the binary rpm; installing the src.rpm does not cause rpm to automagically build the sources for you.

You can take a look at these resources to better understand SRPMS: https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/RebuildSRPM and https://docs.fedoraproject.org/ro/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM_Guide/ch11s03.html

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The evdi driver plain does not work on RHEL7's 3.10 kernel. We'd need an older version of the evdi driver to have this working.

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