I’ve been looking to get my finger print reader working on Fedora for quite a while now. Alas, fprint hasn’t gotten down to writing drivers for my hard-ware yet. However, someone else did the work for them. The code isn’t included in the libfprint mainline yet. I’ve filed a bug hoping the maintainer will look into it and send cleaned up patches upstream for inclusion. Nevertheless, I’ve built the package for F16 x86_64 which folks can use in the time being. If you’re on another version, you can build yourself an rpm from the srpm.
Here’s what the lsusb output looks like:
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 138a:0008 Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS300 Fingeprint Reader
Here’s a screenshot showing that it works:
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I seem to have the same sensor …
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 138a:0018 Validity Sensors, Inc.
I have downloaded the RPM you reference, now what? I ran rpm –install and it still does not see the sensor … have you any idea what I’m doing wrong?
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I hope you used the rpm, and not the src.rpm? Did the install complete properly (ie the rpm –install command?)? Reboot. There isn’t anything else required. You need to go into settings, as the picture shows, and enable swiping. It’ll then record your prints and the rest.
Thanks for your help so far, I hadn’t had a chance to get back to this until now. I did install the correct RPM (not the source) … but still no joy.
I had to force the rpm with –replacefiles, because it was already installed from the yum repo. I also instaled from yum fprint_demo (fprint_demo), but even after several reboots I still get “No devices found” from both fprintd-enroll and fprint_demo.
I’m running out of ideas, short of getting the source and checking proto.c myself.
hrm, well I didn’t do the patch myself, so there may be issues. It’s why I’ve filed the bug and hope that upstream can sanitize it and include it in their git tree soon.
So does this work with the 138a:0018 or just the 0008?
Both are Validity of course, but all I’m reading in the comments is “I can’t get this to work”….
If this does work, thank you endlessly for sharing, it’s the only thing keeping me tied to Windows…well, the main thing.