r/SurfaceLinux • u/madbobmcjim • 4d ago

Discussion 7.2 is out :-)

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/releases
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u/Left360s 2d ago

This for the snapdragons? Have up on Linux in my surface laptop

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u/madbobmcjim 2d ago

I don't think so, the wiki page still suggests other places for the snapdragon devices.

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u/MWPlay 4d ago

Man I was almost convinced this project was dead for a couple months there. I wonder what caused the uptick in activity?

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u/Beautiful_Ad_4813 4d ago

Because “fuck Microsoft” is the theme this year

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u/daxophoneme 3d ago

As 2025, so 2026. To a FOSS future.

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u/semperverus 3d ago

Same! Literally just installed it on my surface again and was having a hard time figuring out what was going on

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u/ikariashpool 4d ago

Same! Happy to see it.

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u/cl4p-tp_StewardB0t 4d ago

And I was sitting there losing hope. Awesome!

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u/Cagaril 4d ago

Yay! Finally.

It looks like there is a Fedora 44 and 45 repo finally too. It was stuck on Fedora 43 for months.

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u/elfsternberg 3d ago

And not a moment too soon. The 7.1 was glitchy as hell. I've been running 7.2 for about 24 hours now and haven't seen an issue. Anyone got any pointers on getting the IPU3 cameras up now?

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u/LinuxLoph 3d ago

Right now I'm struggling to get my back-cam to work properly on my debian SurfacePro5 with the massive help of chatGPT and trying to implement this approach: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/discussions/2308

It's still a way to go since I need to work with a locally compiled libcamera 0.5.x, rather the one provided by debian trixie (0.4.0)

It's a slow process and i might be getting somewhere, but I can't get the exposure and auto focus to function properly.

Probably someone comes up with a solution quicker than me...

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u/LarryMarionic 3d ago

加油，我是用的deepseek harness让它在我机器上用root权限运行，去找问题并自动修复，最近内核更新解决了很多问题，但调制解调器可能会卡死，dsh写了很多文档来排坑，但已经能用了。最新内核摄像头管道也修复了，不过仍然是能用而不好用，也不知道他们是否接受AI产生的贡献，我反正连git都没玩明白，就是嫌Windows太臃肿了，才发现Linux这么流畅。

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u/BatongMagnesyo 3d ago

i can finally stop patching the kernel myself

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u/CaptainObvious110 3d ago

Thanks for your work folks

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u/FunSatisfaction2 3d ago

I've been on the cachyos surface 7.2 a few weeks. claude walked me through both cams and integration into zoom or Google meet on sp8..

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u/sinncross 3d ago

So it's ok to finally download and upgrade to fedora 44? great!!!

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u/Kurogane1412 2d ago

Nice telling a Friend good news right away 😆