Comment 0 for bug 1652815

Hardware: Microsoft Surface Pro 4, 4gb/128gb nvme drive

Expected Behaviour: Pen/Touch function

Actual Behaviour: Pen/Touch do not work or respond to anything

Kernel/Ubuntu Versions: All

Cause: Hardware requires IPTS (Intel Precision Touch & Stylus) to function. This is because touch processing is accelerated by the Intel Skylake GPU.

IPTS driver can be found here: https://github.com/ipts-linux-org/ipts-linux-new/wiki

Kernel compile under Debian with other Surface-specific patches can be found here: https://github.com/jimdigriz/debian-mssp4

On Reddit there are some custom kernels floating around with support patched in: https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/4t64zt/getting_the_sp4_running_with_ubuntu_1604/