Gentoo Linux Overlay with Linux Surface kernel and other utilities from linux-surface repo.

This is a work in-progress.

Information

• gentoo-surface-sources gentoo-sources with surface patchsets applied
• iptsd utility is needed for touchscreen support. Enable the user and system services after you install.
• libwacom-surface improves touchscreen support.
• surface-control commandline utility to control certain aspects of your surface device.
• surface-dtx-daemon utility to control attach/detach of clipboard on Surface Book devices.
• libcamera A complex camera support library for Linux, Android, and ChromeOS

Installation

Follow the Gentoo handbook pretty closely with these exceptions:

1 Disable secure boot (at least until after the install is finished.)

Post-Installation

1 Add this overlay (i.e. 'layman -a gentoo-linux-surface-overlay') 1 emerge at least gentoo-surface-sources, iptsd, libwacom-surface, and surface-control (libcamera if you want camera support.)

Configuraton

1 For the kernel I have includeed a sample config in /usr/src/gentoo-surface-sources-/EXAMPLE.config that you can cp to .config and use as-is if you like 1 If you want keyboard to work correctly during boot the easiest solution is to just include all kernel modules in the initrd image (for genkernel users add/edit /etc/genkernel.conf: ALLRAMDISKMODULES="yes") 1 If you have a surface book, enable the dtx daemons (system and user): 'systemctl enable --now surface-dtx-daemon.service' (as root) and 'systemctl enable --user --now surface-dtx-userd.service' (as your regular non-root user.) 1

This repo was initally forked from one by Parinthapat Parinz: https://github.com/Parinz/linux-surface-overlay but has since been updated, add to, and improved upon.