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nuclearsandwich / surface3-archlinux

Archlinux on the Microsoft Surface Pro 3
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Update on status? #10

Closed actown closed 9 years ago

actown commented 9 years ago

It's been 19 days since the last update. Are there any updates to some of these tickets and checkboxes that you might be able to cross off?

nuclearsandwich commented 9 years ago

Hi,

There hasn't been much I'm afraid, I've just started my last class as an undergrad :fingers_crossed: and work is super busy. I want to sink most of this weekend into updating this repo and testing new things in Surface Linux. I'm at least hopeful that I can get the Type Cover working and maybe figure out Windows on an SD card for Firmware updates.

Vistaus commented 9 years ago

Running Antergos (based on Arch Linux). Type Cover 3 works fine after installing the patched kernel. Too bad there's no way to disable the trackpad though. (And the trackpad is barebones; doesn't support two-finger scroll on Linux and also, there's no multitouch) WiFi, Bluetooth and the pen work fine after installing the Marvell driver from Git. A little bit buggy with Bluetooth sometimes, but I had that on other computers as well so I blame Bluez (the Linux bluetooth stack) for that. HiDPI support is pretty good with GNOME Shell. Only Chromium is a bit weird: it works fine on HiDPI but the Open/Save As dialog renders with very big fonts. Multitoch gestures work great with GNOME Shell 3.14 (which added gesture support). 3 finger pinch = running apps overview, 1 finger from left bezel = installed apps overview, etc. Pinch to zoom also works great in Chromium and Chrome after setting the pinch to zoom flag in chrome://flags Onscreen keyboard: I prefer Onboard for that. I set it to Blackboard theme and resize and customize it a bit and it's a great keyboard that way. Auto shows when editing text, has word suggestions on the top, multitouch, etc. Auto-rotate should work with the Lenovo Yoga Xorg tool but I haven't tested that yet.