The surface3_spi touchscreen driver finally hit Linus' kernel tree in v4.8rc1. It would be great if this could be backported to the kernels that Ubuntu ships.
The relevant upstream commits should be:
e399037e06beec6d190a302ff5e4fee4aae77c50 ACPI / scan: set status to 0 if _STA failed
30f3a6ab44d8d06bb3d94f6320e4aa76df59d025 spi: pxa2xx: Add support for both chip selects on Intel Braswell
4feacbc24eea0c5f36728017575cc0ad28d8758b Input: add new driver for the Surface 3
427ee20610a7c252e99d08e08e70a4203c6059d0 Input: surface3_spi - Prepare to add support for Surface Pen
72fb4765ac9eea56a94282f29cdc70706f21494e Input: surface3_spi - add surface pen support for Surface 3
These should hopefully be enough to get the touchscreen working. 4.4 is a really old kernel, so there might be some additional ACPI fixes needed. I'm not 100% certain. This is all that was needed on top of 4.6.
Config options needed on i386 and amd64:
CONFIG_SPI_PXA2XX=m
CONFIG_PINCTRL_CHERRYVIEW=m
CONFIG_TOUCHSCREEN_SURFACE3_SPI=m
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ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
CasperVersion: 1.376
CurrentDesktop: Unity
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
Lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1286:204c Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 045e:07de Microsoft Corp.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 03f0:b107 Hewlett-Packard v255w/c310w Flash Drive
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: Microsoft Corporation Surface 3
Package: linux (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/username.seed boot=casper quiet splash systemd.unit=rescue.target ---
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-restricted-modules-4.4.0-31-generic N/A
linux-backports-modules-4.4.0-31-generic N/A
linux-firmware 1.157.2
Tags: xenial
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True
dmi.bios.date: 03/09/2015
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.51116.178
dmi.board.asset.tag: 0
dmi.board.name: Surface 3
dmi.board.vendor: Microsoft Corporation
dmi.board.version: 00
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Microsoft Corporation
dmi.chassis.version: 1
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1.51116.178:bd03/09/2015:svnMicrosoftCorporation:pnSurface3:pvrB16D1SW1C4G1X1:rvnMicrosoftCorporation:rnSurface3:rvr00:cvnMicrosoftCorporation:ct9:cvr1:
dmi.product.name: Surface 3
dmi.product.version: B16D1SW1C4G1X1
dmi.sys.vendor: Microsoft Corporation
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