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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: surface ntrig touchscreen
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 01:43:33
Message-Id: loom.20160606T034244-809@post.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: surface ntrig touchscreen by Bill Kenworthy
1 Bill Kenworthy <billk <at> iinet.net.au> writes:
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4 > Unfortunately no ... the first device is 8086:9d3a which shows up, but
5 > the touchscreen at 8086:9d3e dosent. The problem is that the detection
6 > code does not enumerate secondary devices - there was a patch against
7 > the spi bus in the kernel a few versions back, but it wont apply to
8 > 4.6.1. This is the likely problem but the code is very opaque :(
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11 This info should be added to hwids upstream. So make contact there
12 and list the hardware and see if you can get it included.
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14 > I'll try and manually add an appropriate stanza in tonight.
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17 Munge around the kernel githubs, find the right dev and try that pathway.....
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19 > BillK
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22 hth,
23 James