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Aetherrr

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Registered: 2025-08-01

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ELAN7001/04f3:3128 fingerprint detected, not exposed. I have fw.bin

Title. I am running 6.15.8 Zen (Arch of course ) and up-to-date. ASUS Vivobook Flip 14 TP470EA.

ls /sys/bus/spi/devices/
detects the device as a trackpad (which is partly true considering the fact that this is one of those SPI trackpad-sensor duos. The sensor itself is in the top right corner of the trackpad).

Interesting to note that the device is listed both on the supported devices list for libfprint (https://fprint.freedesktop.org/supported-devices.html) and in the unsupported list (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libfprin … ed-Devices). Unfortunately, fprintd-enroll gives enroll-unknown-error,
and journalctl for fprintd shows

Jul 30 22:37:25 AetherPC fprintd[1230]: Device reported an error during identify for enroll: timed out waiting for image Jul 30 22:37:25 AetherPC fprintd[1230]: Requesting authorization from :1.53 to call method 'EnrollStop' for device 'ElanTech Embedded Fingerprint Sensor' Jul 30 22:37:25 AetherPC fprintd[1230]: Authorization granted to :1.53 to call method 'EnrollStop' for device 'ElanTech Embedded Fingerprint Sensor'! Jul 30 22:37:25 AetherPC fprintd[1230]: Requesting authorization from :1.53 to call method 'Release' for device 'ElanTech Embedded Fingerprint Sensor' Jul 30 22:37:25 AetherPC fprintd[1230]: Authorization granted to :1.53 to call method 'Release' for device 'ElanTech Embedded Fingerprint Sensor'! Jul 30 22:37:25 AetherPC fprintd[1230]: Image device close completed Jul 30 22:37:25 AetherPC fprintd[1230]: Device reported close completion Jul 30 22:37:25 AetherPC fprintd[1230]: Completing action FPI_DEVICE_ACTION_CLOSE in idle! Jul 30 22:37:25 AetherPC fprintd[1230]: Updated temperature model after 0.00 seconds, ratio 0.27 -> 0.27, active 0 -> 0, FP_TEMPERATURE_COLD -> FP_TEMPERATU RE_COLD 

I have ripped the elanfw.bin from an ASUS provided driver update package and I have checked the header and strings, it seems to be a genuine driver file that isn't horribly proprietary or for Windows only. How could I go about installing this firmware to my Arch device? Should I rebuild libfprint from source?