Hi Florian, > I've written an open-source driver for the Microsoft Surface 2.0 touch > screen, which is available here: https://github.com/floe/surface-2.0/
Great stuff! Yesterday, I was wondering when something like this would appear. :-) > Video of the result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-JNqTY_3b0 > > Thanks to the guys at LMU (http://www.mimuc.de/), I had the opportunity > to play with one for a bit and the result is what you can find above. > > Of course, using this requires you to boot Linux on your Surface 2.0 in > the first place. However, since it's just a regular PC, I've found that > easier than expected: just boot Ubuntu from an USB harddisk and you > don't even have to modify anything on the original Win7 installation. > > Ubuntu 11.10 works surprisingly well: all hardware works out-of-the box, > with the single exception being the touchscreen. Well, not anymore. ;-) This is great news indeed. > There are a few white spots left in the protocol (most of it is pretty > straightforward, but a few things have eluded me). If someone else has > access to a MS Surface 2.0, I'd be happy to get some feedback. Ok. > NB: right now, the provided tools just display the data and don't pass > it on to Linux, so interaction with utouch isn't possible right now. But > I hope I'll get around to writing an uinput bridge next week. If > somebody could point me to a recent uinput example for multitouch, that > would be awesome. Better yet, from the protocol details, it looks like it would be straight-forward to write an MT driver directly. Thanks for sharing! Henrik _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
