Synapse Hardware Support for Linux

The purpose of this repository is to provide tweaks, settings, scripts, and drivers to improve support for Synapse hardware devices under Linux.

Upstream Support

If you are using a kernel where support has been upstreamed then this is unnecessary and the hardware will just work out of the box.

• Linux 4.0.0 and newer
• Ubuntu 15.10 and newer
• Ubuntu 15.04 (linux-image-3.19.0-17 and newer)
• Ubuntu 14.10 (linux-image-3.16.0-38 and newer)
• Ubuntu 14.04 (linux-image-3.13.0-54 and newer)

Stable kernel trees where the patch was included:

• 3.19.5
• 3.18.13
• 3.16.7-ckt10
• 3.14.39
• 3.13.11-ckt20
• 3.12.41
• 3.10.75
• 3.4.108
• 3.2.69

Additionally any kernel that has the following two patches render this unnecessary:

• https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4899c054a90439477b24da8977db8d738376fe90
• https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b229a0f840f774d29d8fedbf5deb344ca36b7f1a

Installation

Run the install.sh as root or with sudo privileges. Your distro must include the ftdi_sio and cp210x kernel modules for this to work correctly. Most distros do include these.