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The issue is the dock itself which may need drivers.
Looking online it seems to have drivers for Windows. It doesn't look like HP provide driver for Linux for this.
The problem is to do with display over USB. If you plug a display device directly into a USB-c port in your notebook then it should work as USB-C supports display port directly (display port alternative mode) and this is in the Linux kernel.
However if you plug in a USB hub, then you're dependent on the hub device which is running as a USB device. If it has very good hardware then it might effectively be running more true USB-c ports but it could also (and kuch more likely) rely on drivers like DisplayLink to allow it to run a display over USB.
DisplayLink is proprietary and not in the Linux kernel to my knowledge. You could look to enable DisplayLink drivers in your Arch set up. There is a guide on the Wiki but it is described as experimental. There are official Display Link drivers for Linux (from Synaptics) but only officially released for Ubuntu, so support is patchy.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DisplayLink
What you describe here makes totally sense, since every time I plug a windows device to this docking station a pop up is telling me, that display link drivers are going to be installed…
Maybe I should dig into this display link topic.
Thanks!
Displaylink works on arch. Just install
evdi
anddisplaylink
from the aur. Enable the service and also use the linux-lts kernel. EVDI is unfortunately an out of tree kernel module and lags behind the usually very recent official arch kernel.not forgetting
linux-header
anddkms
;)Works directly after rebooting the Notebook.
Thanks!