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Ubuntu 15.04 on the Surface Pro 3
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Ubuntu 15.04 on the Surface Pro 3

Mostly read http://blog.davidelner.com/dual-booting-ubuntu-14-10-on-the-surface-pro-3/.

I couldn't resize the Window partition as much as I wanted (I think I had a pesky "system volume information" that couldn't be moved around). I performed a reinstall and could reduce the partition further.

I've copied the Marvell wifi driver (actually only the usb8801_uapsta.bin and sd8801_uapsta.bin were missing on my surface), and indeed the wifi performed much better.

I've copied the X.org configuration (but didn't need to change the kernel as Ubuntu 15.04 has already a 3.19 kernel) and the touch pad works.

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