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Surface Laptop 2 - i5-8250u Troubleshooting

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Did you use voodooi2c to get the trackpad working? I haven't been able to get it moving around.

Yep. I haven't done anything with it since summer (no keyboard makes it hardly worthwhile to have installed) but it required a DSDT patch along with voodooi2c. The patch is in the voodooi2c repository.
 
I have a same laptop, but didn't hack this one though. I am working on another convertible laptop which has the similar keyboard issue.

As I remembered, Surface Laptop 2 isn't connected through PS2, so VoodooPS2Controller should not work anyway. I will double check when I get home, but with windows, if you look at the first tab of the keyboard driver, that should say it.
 
I checked on Windows Device Manager, it is neither PS2, I2C nor USB. I booted Ubuntu live CD with Surface Laptop 2, the keyboard and touchscreen does not work. So I guess it should not easy to hack Keyboard and touchscreen.

I found there is a guy built drivers for Surface running on Linux, may be that can be utilized... https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface
 
It's i2c.

I have it working with voodooi2c (trackpad only) the keyboard, battery, and trackpad and probably other things are all governed by a SAM module.
The keyboard doesn't even work OOB in Windows. It needs a driver.

Yeah. It works in Linux. I also have chrome is working.

Unfortunately someone with way experience needs to work on this to get it working in Mac is.

The person who got the keyboard in Linux gave me this information: "...the keyboard is handled via the SAM (Surface Aggregator Module, basically an embedded controller also doing stuff like battery management, probably similar to Apple's SMC). On the Laptops (and Book 2, Pro 5 and 6) SAM is connected via UART, so you would need something that can handle this."

I checked on Windows Device Manager, it is neither PS2, I2C nor USB. I booted Ubuntu live CD with Surface Laptop 2, the keyboard and touchscreen does not work. So I guess it should not easy to hack Keyboard and touchscreen.

I found there is a guy built drivers for Surface running on Linux, may be that can be utilized... https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface
 
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Have you found a solution to the keyboard yet? I have the first gen surface laptop but both are very similar (and I have the same issues as you). It's a shame the keyboard doesn't work since the trackpad works so well.
 
Have you found a solution to the keyboard yet? I have the first gen surface laptop but both are very similar (and I have the same issues as you). It's a shame the keyboard doesn't work since the trackpad works so well.

Nope. I am afraid it's beyond my expertise, unfortunately.
 
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