Surface Pro 3 issues

KyouR · 2016-11-15 17:59:47

Edit: this thread can be closed. I have moved onto a different distribution.

Good Afternoon. I have followed the guide to install Arch on the Surface Pro 3 and am facing some issues currently. I've followed the instructions as best as I could but there are still some issues. I will outline the resources I've used and some of the steps that I have taken. I have literally researched for days but being completely new to Arch, I am unsure why I am still having some problems and I am under the assumption that I am doing things incorrectly. It seems most resources I've found aren't exactly thorough for complete beginners.

I am currently running a Gnome 3 environment

Current problems:
Surface Pen will be detected, but cannot touch anything on an application window (I can bring up a window by tapping it, but hitting links, buttons, etc will not work unless I use my fingers. It does work to close windows and interact with system windows). Cannot draw with the pen in xournal but my fingers work, for example.
Synaptic won't be detected even though the touchpad is functioning. I'm still missing features such as two finger scroll, etc.

I've followed steps in this Surface Pro 3 guide to try and fix things like the touchpad and pen top no avail.
On that same link, I used the github link to patch the kernel. (downloaded, ran "makepg" then "makepkg -i", installed the three packages: linux-surfacepro3-4.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz, +docs, +headers -- that were generated.) When searched with yaourt, it shows the related packages as installed except for "rt".
xf86-input-synaptics & xf86-input-wacom were both installed

Thank you for the assistance in advance. Once again, I am very new to this and have tried to research many different solutions that don't seem to work for me. I believe I may be missing some information on what I should be doing or how to do it. I'm also not entirely sure what other details are needed but I will gladly output any logs of some sort if needed.

xinput:

⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ xwayland-pointer:13                     	id=6	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ xwayland-touch:13                       	id=8	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                   	id=3	[master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard             	id=5	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ xwayland-keyboard:13                    	id=7	[slave  keyboard (3)]

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d contains:
10-evdev.conf

# Catch-all evdev loader for udev-based systems
# We don't simply match on any device since that also adds accelerometers
# and other devices that we don't really want to use. The list below
# matches everything but joysticks.

#Section "InputClass"
#        Identifier "evdev pointer catchall"
#        MatchIsPointer "on"
#        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
#        Driver "evdev"
#EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

#Section "InputClass"
#        Identifier "evdev touchpad catchall"
#        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
#        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
#        Driver "evdev"
#EndSection

#Section "InputClass"
#        Identifier "evdev tablet catchall"
#        MatchIsTablet "on"
#        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
#        Driver "evdev"
#EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev touchscreen catchall"
        MatchIsTouchscreen "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

10-multitouch.conf

 Section "InputClass"
	Identifier "Default clickpad buttons"
	MatchDriver "synaptics"
	Option "ClickPad" "true"
	Option "SoftButtonAreas" "50% 0 82% 0 0 0 0 0"
	Option "SecondarySoftButtonAreas" "58% 0 0 15% 42% 58% 0 15%"
Endsection

70-synaptics.conf

# Example xorg.conf.d snippet that assigns the touchpad driver
# to all touchpads. See xorg.conf.d(5) for more information on
# InputClass.
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE, your distribution will likely overwrite
# it when updating. Copy (and rename) this file into
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d first.
# Additional options may be added in the form of
#   Option "OptionName" "value"
#
#Section "InputClass"
#        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
#        Driver "synaptics"
#        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
# This option is recommend on all Linux systems using evdev, but cannot be
# enabled by default. See the following link for details:
# http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-ignore-configuration-errors.html
#       MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
	Identifier "touchpad"
	Driver "synaptics"
	MatchIsTouchpad "on"
	Option "TapButton1" "1"
	Option "TapButton2" "3"
	Option "TapButton3" "2"
	Option "VertEdgeScroll" "on"
	Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "on"
	Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "on"
	Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "on"
	Option "CircularScrolling" "on"
	Option "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
	Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" "40"
	Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinW" "8"
	Option "CoastingSpeed" "0"	
	Option "FingerLow" "30"
	Option "FingerHigh" "50"
	Option "MaxTapTime" "125"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad ignore duplicates"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchOS "Linux"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/mouse*"
        Option "Ignore" "on"
EndSection

# This option enables the bottom right corner to be a right button on clickpads
# and the right and middle top areas to be right / middle buttons on clickpads
# with a top button area.
# This option is only interpreted by clickpads.
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Default clickpad buttons"
        MatchDriver "synaptics"
        Option "SoftButtonAreas" "50% 0 82% 0 0 0 0 0"
        Option "SecondarySoftButtonAreas" "58% 0 0 15% 42% 58% 0 15%"
EndSection

# This option disables software buttons on Apple touchpads.
# This option is only interpreted by clickpads.
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Disable clickpad buttons on Apple touchpads"
        MatchProduct "Apple|bcm5974"
        MatchDriver "synaptics"
        Option "SoftButtonAreas" "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0"
EndSection

/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ contains:
40libinput.conf (recently made... existed after these problems came into play)

# Match on all types of devices but tablet devices and joysticks
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "libinput pointer catchall"
        MatchIsPointer "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "libinput"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "libinput keyboard catchall"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "libinput"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "libinput touchpad catchall"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "libinput"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "libinput touchscreen catchall"
        MatchIsTouchscreen "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "libinput"
EndSection

70-synaptics.conf
See above

70-wacom.conf

# Some of the below input classes appear 3x times, once for each of
# "tablet", "touchscreen", and "touchpad" to ensure that the Wacom
# driver is not accidentally bound to other types of hardware that
# Wacom has made which are not handled by the wacom driver (e.g the
# Wacom Bluetooth Keyboard)
#
# https://sourceforge.net/p/linuxwacom/bugs/294/

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Wacom USB tablet class"
        MatchUSBID "056a:*"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        MatchIsTablet "true"
        Driver "wacom"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Wacom USB touchscreen class"
        MatchUSBID "056a:*"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        MatchIsTouchscreen "true"
        Driver "wacom"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Wacom USB touchpad class"
        MatchUSBID "056a:*"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        MatchIsTouchpad "true"
        Driver "wacom"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
	Identifier "Wacom tablet class"
	MatchProduct "Wacom|WACOM|PTK-540WL|ISD-V4"
	MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
	MatchIsTablet "true"
	Driver "wacom"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
	Identifier "Wacom touchscreen class"
	MatchProduct "Wacom|WACOM|PTK-540WL|ISD-V4"
	MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
	MatchIsTouchscreen "true"
	Driver "wacom"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
	Identifier "Wacom touchpad class"
	MatchProduct "Wacom|WACOM|PTK-540WL|ISD-V4"
	MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
	MatchIsTouchpad "true"
	Driver "wacom"
EndSection

# Serial Wacom devices should always be one of tablet, touchscreen, or
# touchpad so we can safely get away with just one match section in
# these cases
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Wacom PnP device class"
        MatchPnPID "WACf*|WCOM*|WACM*|FUJ02e5|FUJ02e7|FUJ02e9"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "wacom"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
	Identifier "Wacom serial class"
	MatchProduct "Serial Wacom Tablet"
	Driver "wacom"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Wacom serial class identifiers"
        MatchProduct "WACf|FUJ02e5|FUJ02e7|FUJ02e9"
        Driver "wacom"
EndSection

# Hanwang tablets
Section "InputClass"
	Identifier "Hanwang class"
	MatchProduct "Hanwang"
	MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
	Driver "wacom"
EndSection

# Waltop tablets
Section "InputClass"
	Identifier "Waltop class"
	MatchProduct "WALTOP"
	MatchIsTablet "on"
	MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
	Driver "wacom"
EndSection

# N-Trig Duosense Electromagnetic Digitizer
Section "InputClass"
	Identifier "Wacom N-Trig class"
	MatchProduct "HID 1B96:0000|N-Trig Pen|N-Trig DuoSense|1B96:1B05 Pen"
	MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
	Driver "wacom"
	Option "Button2" "3"
EndSection

Last edited by KyouR (2016-11-16 06:30:36)

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