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Surface Pen Support missing in Bazzite 42+

I recently decided to give Bazzite a try on my Surface Pro 7 because Ubuntu was having some weird issues, and some googling said that all the Surface stuff is already installed on Bazzite so the setup should've been pretty easy. But after completing the install, while the touchscreen works fine, the Surface Pen doesn't work at all. System settings shows a drawing tablet is present, but the pen isn't doing anything.

Apparently IPTSD isn't included in the package anymore? 'rpm -qa | grep "iptsd"' returns nothing. 'rpm -qa | grep "surface"' also returned nothing, which surprised me.

Is there a way to manually layer in the Surface kernel and IPTSD stuff? I can't figure out what repos I should add, or how to add them. I tried 'rpm-ostree install iptsd' and it just failed with 'package not found.'
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