Microsoft Surface 3 Touchscreen & Other Input Improvements For Linux 4.8

[zxy_thf]

it was always possible, what should be the problem? - I use two with Linux:

https://t2-project.org/hardware/port...t/SurfacePro2/
https://t2-project.org/hardware/port...t/SurfacePro3/

Surface 3 is not Surface PRO 3.

This is exactly the same as with laptops, you still have to research on which ones are best supported before you buy. If you buy hardware blindly and expect it to magically work, you are going to be disappointed.

Unfortunately a lot of laptops are using broadcom wifi chips, and broadcom provides GPL driver but it never enters mainline.
It's the major pain for me to run Linux on my air.

[duby229]

Surface 3 is not Surface PRO 3.


Unfortunately a lot of laptops are using broadcom wifi chips, and broadcom provides GPL driver but it never enters mainline.
It's the major pain for me to run Linux on my air.

There are reasons why open source drivers don't make it into the upstream kernel. It's usually do to the fact that they don't implement the interface completely or correctly. The linux kernel's interface for wifi drivers is designed to allow users to configure important things like txpower or bitrate manually. But a large number of drivers are designed to -not- allow you to configure those things. That's why they never make it upstream, they aren't designed to spec or they aren't complete enough.