Comment 102 for bug 744310

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David Fraser (davidf) wrote :

Testing this on my Dell Vostro 3700 with a VFS300, and installing the drivers from https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+archive/fprint:

* fprint_demo lists the device as a VFS301
* Attempting to enroll fingers does nothing
* the program occasionally segfaults

What am I doing wrong? Versions below... dpkg -l "*fprint*" gksu-polkit

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-===========================================-==========================-==========================-===========================================================================================
ii fprint-demo 1:0.4+git20080303-0ppa2~on i386 GUI to show and test libfprint's capabilities
ii fprintd 0.4.1-5-g73edad0-3 i386 D-Bus daemon for fingerprint reader access
ii gksu-polkit 0.0.2-2.1ubuntu2 i386 command line utility to run programs as root
ii libfprint0 1:0.5.0-git20121204-1-0ppa i386 fingerprint library of fprint project, shared libraries
ii libpam-fprintd:i386 0.4.1-5-g73edad0-3 i386 PAM module for fingerprint authentication trough fprintd
ii xfprint4 4.6.1-3ubuntu1 i386 Printer GUI for Xfce4