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From: R0b0t1 <r030t1@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] surface ntrig touchscreen
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2016 15:22:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAD4mYjHTEJms97K-1jM6-d2iASYg8SbcQtsnjyyH_Gnjiqucg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57537A03.6090508@iinet.net.au>

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On Jun 4, 2016 8:04 PM, "Bill Kenworthy" <billk@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> Has anyone been able to get the surface pro ntrig touchscreen to work
> ... and if so how?
>
> MS recently changed from the wacom to a ntrig touchscreen (they
> apparently bought the company!) for the latest pro models.  The kernel
> guys have a surface3_spi module being worked on which I have patched
> into 4.6.1 ... but neither dmesg or lspci still shows a ntrig device.
>
> BillK
>

Depends what you expect to use it for. Linux software is playing catch up.

I would pass the hardware to a Windows VM and use the software that can
take advantage of it.

This is a great place for FOSS development if anyone has the resources.
Currently I am unable to afford a Surface.

Sid.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-05 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-05  1:01 [gentoo-user] surface ntrig touchscreen Bill Kenworthy
2016-06-05 20:12 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2016-06-06  1:18   ` Bill Kenworthy
2016-06-06  1:43     ` James
2016-06-06  1:45     ` R0b0t1
2016-06-05 20:22 ` R0b0t1 [this message]

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