My Personal PPA

My Personal PPA.

For the package 'lxsurface', you will need to run

$ sudo apt-add-repository https://launchpad.net/~npjohnson/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

$ sudo apt update

$ sudo apt install lxsurface

$ cd ~/

$ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.6.7/linux-headers-4.6.7-040607_4.6.7-040607.201608160432_all.deb

$ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.6.7/linux-headers-4.6.7-040607-generic_4.6.7-040607.201608160432_amd64.deb

$ sudo dpkg -i ~/linux-headers-4.6.7-*

$ cat <<'EOF' | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf > /dev/null
options i915 enable_guc_submission=Y guc_log_level=3
EOF

$ sudo mkdir /itouch

# And you'll need to copy the touch firmware from your Windows directory.

# *mount your Windows partition*

# Issue something like:

$ sudo cp -a /media/nolenjohnson/Windows/INF/PreciseTouch/*/* /itouch/

$cd /itouch

$ sudo ln -s iaPreciseTouchDescriptor.bin /itouch/integ_descriptor.bin
$ sudo ln -s SurfaceTouchServicingSFTConfigMSHW0076.bin /itouch/integ_sft_cfg_skl.bin
$ sudo ln -s SurfaceTouchServicingDescriptorMSHW0076.bin /itouch/vendor_descriptor.bin
$ sudo ln -s SurfaceTouchServicingKernelSKLMSHW0076.bin /itouch/vendor_kernel_skl.bin

# You may need to try different firmwares. On Ubuntu 16.04, under Linux 4.6.7, on the Surface Book, firmware v76 works, though, I've heard on the Surface Pro 4 v78 is the only one that works. Play around with it. For me, v79 resulted in inverted touch.

$ sudo update-grub

$ sudo reboot

# Select Linux 4.6.7+ in GRUB upon reboot, if it works for you, you can set it as default using grub-customizer (Google it).

NOTES:

# I will not be updating this to 4.7 any time soon.

BUGS:

# The currently distributed dock firmware is buggy, and I can't fix firmware related issues. If you have issues with the dock, play around with unplugging/rebooting/plugging it in.
# NVidia dGPU isn't yet supported.
# Undocking results in logout (expected behavior, looking into disabling it).
# Taking the screen off results in logout (expected behavior, looking into disabling it).

SOURCE:

https://github.com/npjohnson/linux-surface

branch: linux-4.6.y

defconfig: surface_defconfig