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Hey guys, I'm having a few problems installing the fingerprint reader on Arch Linux. I have the 147e:2016 UPEK fingerprint reader according to lsusb. As far as I know, libfprint-UNSTABLE supports that, but I think it causes a few problems too. Sometimes fingerprint-gui crashes from "Segmentation Fault" and I tried adding it to the PAM sudo file, but whenever I run sudo something, it doesn't ask for a finger swipe. The green light also does not turn on. So, I tried manually running /lib/security/pam_fingerprint-gui.so and it returned "Segmentation Fault." I followed the fingerprint-gui on the Fprint page on the Arch wiki, but didn't work. So then I tried the fprint method, but all the packages they listed to install (Excluding PAM) were not found. I googled the package names (libfprint and pam_fprint) and it returned results from the arch package place, but when I clicked on them, it said the packages weren't found. Any ideas on where I could go from here?
Last edited by kkeller (2011-07-03 20:51:02)
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I've had better results with Thinkfinger which is in the extra repo.
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I've had better results with Thinkfinger which is in the extra repo.
Yes, I have used thinkfinger on my other thinkpad, by sadly thinkfinger does NOT support my reader.
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Any solution?
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Just a FYI. I did some poking around on this and found something interesting, so I thought I'd pass it along.
Disclaimer: I have NOT tried this, and don't even own the fingerprint reader in question.
Anyway, here's the trail I followed...
The ThinkWiki page here:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Integrate … int_reader
points to patches from a year ago in this bug report:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504399
So I downloaded the libfprint-0.4.0-1.fc15 and fprintd-0.4.1-1.fc15 Fedora 15 source RPM packages by drilling down from here:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates … b1ec4e90dc
Then I exploded the RPMs and looked at the "spec" files... and here's where it got interesting.
Fedora seems to be getting the source code for both libfprint and fprintd from here:
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hadess/
and not from the "official" code repository like the Arch AUR packages do.
So... you may want to give that code a try... or not
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