17e9:037b — Plugable USB-VGA-165
DisplayLink
- Vendor ID
- 17e9
- Product ID
- 037b
- Combined
- 17e9:037b
- Decimal
- 6121:891
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a Plugable USB-VGA-165 manufactured by DisplayLink. The vendor ID 17e9 is registered to DisplayLink with the USB Implementers Forum, and 037b is the product ID that DisplayLink assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 17e9:037b DisplayLink Plugable USB-VGA-165.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 17e9:037b DisplayLink Plugable USB-VGA-165
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 17e9:037b, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 17e9:037b. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=17e9, idProduct=037b.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_17E9&PID_037B USB\VID_17E9&PID_037B&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_17E9&PID_037B"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
Plugable USB-VGA-165:
Product ID: 0x037b
Vendor ID: 0x17e9 (DisplayLink)Driver help
Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.
Raw usb.ids entry
The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:
17e9 DisplayLink 037b Plugable USB-VGA-165