Type Cover 3: working

[Vistaus]

If you patch the kernel, Type Cover 3 is working. Do note that there currently is no way to disable the trackpad or tap-to-click or enable stuff like two-finger scrolling.

You can patch, compile and install the patched kernel as follows: #8

[Vistaus]

Tested on: 3.16, 3.17 and 3.18 rc5. Note that on 3.18 rc5 you'll get 1 tiny error when patching, you can ignore that, Type Cover 3 works fine even with that error.

[Vistaus]

3.18.0 Stable is working fine as well with this patch.

Note that on kernel 3.19 and higher, you don't need to apply the patch anymore as the Type Cover 3 works out-of-the-box there. You do need to use the how-to I linked to in the OP for the cameras part if you want to get the cameras working.

[Aethelflaed]

Hi,

I just tested this on linux 4.1.6 (newly installed arch) and the type cover I just received (had to order it online for a qwerty version) doesn't work. More exactly, the trackpad is working realy fine, with multi touch and everything I may want, but the keyboard just produces no event.

dmesg when I plug it in:

[  924.188189] usb 1-3: new full-speed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[  924.362319] usb 1-3: No LPM exit latency info found, disabling LPM.
[  924.996756] input: Microsoft Surface Type Cover UNKNOWN as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-3/1-3:1.0/0003:045E:07E2.0007/input/input19
[  925.049349] hid-multitouch 0003:045E:07E2.0007: input,hiddev0,hidraw2: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [Microsoft Surface Type Cover] on usb-0000:00:14.0-3/input0

I shows up in lsusb as:
Bus 001 Device 010: ID 045e:07e2 Microsoft Corp.

xinput displays:

⎡ Virtual core pointer                        id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ NTRG0001:01 1B96:1B05 Pen                 id=9    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ NTRG0001:01 1B96:1B05                     id=10   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Microsoft Surface Type Cover UNKNOWN      id=8    [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)]
    ↳ Microsoft Wired Keyboard 400                id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]

The pointer from the type cover is displayed, but not the keyboard !
(I have a wired keyboard plugged in as you can see).