10.6.3 screwed up my usb monitor

[fhall1]

10.6.3 (I used combo update) horked up my Mimo 7" USB powered monitor (uses Displaylink drivers). I use the monitor in portrait mode and after the update my screen was "squished" so that it was only using the left half of the monitor, the right side was blank. I tried rebooting, then reinstalling the displaylink driver and rebooting, to no avail. Then I went into the display prefs and rotated the image to landscape and it's fine in that mode. Then rotated back to portrait and the image was back on the left half of the screen, the right half had a residual image of the landscape mode instead of being black this time. The monitor worked fine in all modes in 10.6.2. Guess it's going to be in landscape mode for a while....hopefully it'll be fixed in 10.6.4.

 

[Hellhammer]

Send them email about it (the driver maker). I'm sure they will update the driver if it's because of that

 

[JayfromBKK]

Confirmed, it's broken

Same behavior here. After the 10.6.3 Combo Update the MIMO UM-730 no longer supports 90 degree or 270 degree rotation with the Display Link 1.5 drivers. It will support 180 degree rotation, but that's rather useless. Sad to suffer downtime while they redo the drivers because in portrait the MIMO is home to my iPhone Simulator.app

 

[fhall1]

Glad I'm not alone....guess a note to both Apple and Displaylink might be warranted

Edit: Response from Mimo (monitor maker) - "Hello,
Yes, we’ve been getting reports of this bug with the 10.6.3 update. It isn’t Apple’s problem as much as it is Displaylink’s (software driver manufacturer). A bug report has been submitted and hopefully a fix will be forthcoming, but in the meantime, to regain full functionality on your Mimo, you can revert back to 10.6.2."

 

[Kimoto]

Fix in the works

DisplayLink has acknowledged there is a known issue when users upgrade to 10.6.3 using rotated monitors with MIMO. Please take a look at http://www.displaylink.org/forum/showthread.php?t=281. It seems they are working on a fix.

 

[fhall1]

Good find Kimoto....thanks for the link!

 

[fhall1]

New beta driver released today that's supposed to fix this...hopefully will get a chance to try it out later tonight.

http://www.displaylink.org/forum/showthread.php?t=299

UPDATE: Driver seems to work ok...I'm back to using my USB monitor at 90 degrees rotation.