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apink

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Registered: 2022-08-13

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[SOLVED] surface pro 7 touch screen

I have installed devuan on a surface pro 7.  Most things work.  The touch screen does not.  I want to get it working.  Currently I am running stock daedalus.

It seems that I would need to install a custom kernel that has surface functionality and then install the ipts package.  There is a debian-based surface kernel that I can download.  Also it seems that ipts is designed to work with systemd.

1)  Will a build of a debian kernel be independent of systemd?  (In other words, can I just pop in the debian-based kernel someone else has built into my devuan machine, or do I have to compile my own against the devuan framework?)

2)  Has anyone put together an implementation of ipts that does not involve systemd?

Thank you for any help.  I apologize for the ignorance demonstrated in this post.

apink

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Registered: 2022-08-13

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Re: [SOLVED] surface pro 7 touch screen

I got the touch screen working.  I did not have to compile my own kernel or use ipts (iptsd).

This page:

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux- … ure-matrix

told me to go here:

https://github.com/quo/ithc-linux

I then copied the repository to my drive ($ git clone https://github.com/quo/ithc-linux) and then ran the make ... commands (with dkms).

I am using daedalus running the debian 5.18.14-1 kernel.

Also, for the record, somewhere along the way from the usb devuan live through installation onto the hard drive to upgrading to daedalus I hit a roadblock and changed line 148 in the file referenced here:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … 0978;msg=5

Last edited by apink (2022-08-15 03:30:07)