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gian412

Member

Registered: 2021-01-13

Posts: 1

Fingerprint reader not detected on Dell 7501

Hi everyone,
I recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 7000 (7501), and OBV first thing first I installed Arch.
After a little time, I start wondering how the GNU/Linux world was going with the fingerprint reader and, after some research, I found fingerprint-gui (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fingerprint-gui/).
Unluckily, my fingerprint reader is not recognized, so I can't set everything up.
The questions are:
    - Is there a way to fix the problem?
    - Can I help/improve the community in any way? I'd like to help, but I don't know where to start. Any advice?

Thank you all for the help and the time!
Cheers

piperfw

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Registered: 2021-01-08

Posts: 27

Re: Fingerprint reader not detected on Dell 7501

Hi,

The first thing to check is whether the sensor on your device is supported by fprint (included in fingerprint-gui). See Fprint#Prerequisites.