Touch on Surface Book
How can I make touch work on my Surface Book?
About my Surface Book:
Model: Intel Core i7-6600 U @ 2.60 GHz with 8 GB Ram and Nvidia GPU
OS: Ubuntu 17.04 Latest, kernel 4.10.0-13-generic
System outputs on Ubuntu:
~$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ USB OPTICAL MOUSE id=8 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Microsoft Surface Keyboard Consumer Control id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Microsoft Surface Keyboard Touchpad id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Video Bus id=6 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Surface Pro 3/4 Buttons id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Microsoft Surface Keyboard Keyboard id=9 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Microsoft Surface Keyboard Consumer Control id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]System information on Windows:
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I've run into quite a few issues regarding touch screen with Ubuntu on All-in-one devices. Here's a Reddit post concerning touch screen on a SP4 with Ubuntu 16.04. For all intents and purposes the process should be the same on 17.04, but due to the fact that Ubuntu 17 is still in Beta, support for that may be somewhat limited.
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