Comments on: My MacBook Pro Goes Multimonitor: 4 Monitors At Once!

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:13:05 +0000

I’m running a Korg Kontrol 49, a usb hub for my keys and mouse (which has 2 slots left i can use.

I think you see what my issue could be here already…

Is this setup going to lag out bad if i try to run these display adaptors on an external usb hub?

Any experiences out there?

By: Massimo Burgio

Massimo Burgio — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:29:36 +0000

I mean, of course I was expecting to find you on daggle.com, specially Danny! I meant I wasn’t expecting to find the multiple display solution right out of your blog! Thanks again! =)

By: Massimo Burgio

Massimo Burgio — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:27:24 +0000

Thanks man – and you all commenting here. I just switched from MacBook Pro + 1 external monitor to 2 monitors connected to my laptop, and all your suggestions worked fine. And don’t worry if your workspace is a mess, I feel you. I try to keep mine clean, but it’s like fighting against nature’s forces – clutter finds always his way back!

And… Hi! Danny and Barry – I wasn’t expecting to find you here! =)

By: Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:23:18 +0000

Pablo, I’ve found that when I’m running Windows 7 through Boot Camp on my MacBook, if it goes to sleep, all the external monitors using the Diamond adapters fail to wake. My solution has been to never let it sleep, sadly. If I go away for an extended period, I use Hibernate. And when I wake it from Hibernate, I have to unplug the USB adapters until I see the Windows loading screen come on, then I quickly plug it in. A pain, but it works.

By: JCDrew

JCDrew — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:46:10 +0000

@Pablo… everything worked fine for me for about 18 months, and then I upgraded to Lion. DisplayLink still has a ‘beta’ tag on the new driver, but I think what you’re seeing is part of their problems. The same thing happens to me, but in order to get the monitor connected to the DisplayLink adapter to come back on, I simply power cycle the monitor (just front panel button, not the power cord). It seems to do it for me.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:03:22 +0000

Thanks for the post. Very helpful. I now have two external monitors hooked up (one through Diamond 195 and one monitor straight into the Macbook Pro’s thunderbolt connection), with the Macbook acting as a third monitor. Everything works well (even without any noticeable delay for the Diamond monitor) but with one problem. When I’m away from the computer for a while and it goes to sleep, I have to reboot the computer in order to get the Macbook to re-recognize the diamond monitor.

Any ideas for fixing this?

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:50:33 +0000

Thanks Danny. Great blog post. I have just got my second external monitor going on my mac following your easy instructions.
Cheers, Michael

By: Jerry Drew

Jerry Drew — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:43:38 +0000

Have been having trouble with the beta driver from displaylink when using it on Lion. Sometimes you can’t DROP on a drag and drop function, and other times you can. After uninstalling the beta driver, the problems have gone away. I think others have seen this too. Looking forward to the final driver so we can get back to multiple monitors cleanly.

By: Matthew DeLoera

Matthew DeLoera — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:37:28 +0000

Thanks for this article! I’m running a 2011 MacBook Air (latest HW refresh) 13″ with i5 and 4GB (which I much love – highly recommend to anyone considering one!!!!). Running lots of VirtualBox VMs. Bought the Diamond BVU195 on this recommendation, had to download the beta Lion driver from displayport.com, and everything installed flawlessly. It’ll take a little getting used to my 2 externals (using DisplayPort as well) above, with my laptop centered below, but really appreciate your experience!

I stretch my VM across both externals, to have multiple Visual Studio instances. And running SecondBar. Note – I only get SB on one of the externals. Doesn’t bother me, but if any of you use SB, I thought I’d mention. Didn’t see any config for using SB on multiple externals.

By: jim

jim — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:21:57 +0000

I just bought the Matrix bvu 195 and hooked it up to my lion mac mini server. I downloaded the latest beta software for lion from the display link site, and it works great. I have 3 dell 1600×1200 monitors running.