Surface Pro 9 - SP keyboard stops working after selecting intial Clonezilla option
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Hi folks,
I'm happily using Clonezilla Live (booting to RAM) with Surface Pro 5's and 7's but we recently got a batch of Surface Pro 9's and I'm struggling with keyboard input a little. I am able to use the SP9 keyboard to select the Boot to RAM option, but once I get past that, I have to plug in an external keyboard to do all additional input.
Anyone know if there's a tweakable setting I could change somewhere that would make the Boot to RAM option behave like the initial launch screen? This is definitely software I couldn't live without so I'm ever so grateful for it regardless, but it would be nice not to have to have a giant keyboard living on my desk just to plug in when I want to image SP9s!
Thanks in advance,
Eric.
PS: Version is clonezilla-live-3.1.2-22-amd64
Last edit: Heavyboots 2024-06-25
It looks like this is related to Linux kernel. Have you tried newer, testing Clonezilla live? e.g., 3.1.3-10 or 20240624-oracular?
https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
It comes with newer Linux kernel so it might support your hardware better.
Steven
OK thanks, will give that a shot!
In the end, the solution has been to wait for Microsoft to update the Surface Pro 9 firmware for anyone else who was struggling with this. I just noticed today that everything is working as expected finally after applying all the latest patches that came up on today's (Aug 2024) Patch Tuesday.
Great. Thanks for clarifying that.
Steven