Hello,
I am new to CL. I recently got a surface to toy with and the touchscreen does not seem to be working.
A bit of research showed that the touchscreen is done by Intel. How can I get the touchscreen working in ClearLinux?
Can you share the exact model of your surface pro and screen?
From helping others, I can tell you the Surface devices unfortunately tend to have gaps in support on Linux in general.
@puneetse It is this one Surface Pro (2017) - Wikipedia
Everything works fine for me except the touchscreen (I did not know Intel does touchscreens?!) and a lot links to GitHub - linux-surface/linux-surface: Linux Kernel for Surface Devices
You have to build and install kernel with patches from linux-surface project. You can take inspiration from my linux-surface package. It’s based on a bit older 5.4 kernel package version then currently used in upstream, I’m planning on updating it soon, but it should work.
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I am also interested in testing the Surface Linux kernel on my Surface Laptop Go if that s reasonably easy … I ve posted here : Octane V2 "jumped" from 50.0k to 50.9-k on my Surface Laptop Go thanks to the Surface Linux Kernel
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Planning on doing this with a surface pro 8 link below. Anything special or problematic I should know about before I ditch windows for good?