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Touchscreen and Stylus Linux way behind Windows
Ok, after months of work i managed to install Ubuntu on my Surface Pro 3. And let me tell you, its awesome!!
So, as awesome as it may be, there are still flaws. Primarily in the touchscreen, stylus and handwriting area. i was going to purchase a touchscreen monitor for work but as an open source OS user were not here yet! Here are some areas that could use improvement. 1. the touchscreen crashes and the stylus crashes. ohhhhh, and right click sucks. 2. the onscreen keyboard is terrible. it pops up when it shouldn't and doesn't pop up when it should. if you use it with a touchscreen for a while you'll see what i mean. its also slow and laggy. 3. There is only one usable handwriting app, Xournal but you cant touch the screen with your hand while using the stylus. not being able to rest your hand while writing is a pain in the ass. 4. Annotation and screen writing apps... non existent... Linux is awesome. I've been using it for a few years now and haven't turned back. improvements have been steady but my biggest complaint is the lag in the development and support for new tech. This should be a important area. GNU/Linux is the future Charles, the others no longer matter. Will the entire Linux development community leave this area up to Canonical alone? If anyone else has any suggestions experience or insight please share! |
The touchscreen works fine with Mint and Mageia on my Lenovo ThinkCentre graphics tablet.
This is likely something related specifically to the Surface hardware. |
What kernel? Distro? Machine specs? I hear a LOT of complaining but no terminal details from a
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$ inxi -FxzIf you are a long time linux user. I should not have to tell you how to grep a touchscreen to show what drivers are loaded or how to post what I asked. But here is a bone anyway. Code:
dmesg | grep usb |
$ inxi -Fxz
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System: Host: Ubuntu-VAK-SP3-Tab1 Kernel: 4.0.0-rc5-surface-pro-3 x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 4.9.2)Code:
[ 0.275753] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs |
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open source takes longer to develop, because it's not going to bed with hardware manufacturers. |
I've been using touchscreens with Linux for nearly a decade,... If somethings not working, you have a few possible reasons,...
1) Driver support, driver support,... and oh, yeah driver support... 2) You are not using the appropriate software or packages for your machine; Things to check out are: The Onboard on screen keyboard, Cairo-dock (when set up right, it does wonders for touch screen control), Xournal... 3) There's a short between the keyboard/touchscreen and the seat... ;) |
Thank you for listening to this gruff ignorant biker. What do you get with
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grep TOUCHSCREEN /run/udev/data/*Code:
xinput list | grep -i touchscreenBut I make my gear run OK. Happy Trails , Rok Edit: Kudos to you for installing Linux linux on something with Micro Soft in the name in inxi and dmesg and not having smoke come out of the netbook. Have you looked and tried using this thread as a guide. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2231207 |
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$ sed '/Sysfs=/!d; s/.*=//' /proc/bus/input/devices | xargs -I '{}' udevadm info --path='{}' | grep TOUCHSCREENCode:
$ grep TOUCHSCREEN /run/udev/data/*Code:
$ xinput list | grep -i touchscreeni am documenting everything and compiling notebooks. Here to learn, I am. |
Any further advice from the GED biker from Texas covered with tattoos?
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Anyone, anyone?
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I'd wait on the GED biker with tattoos because he's a smart guy
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