Comment 7 for bug 163156
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| Ugo Riboni (uriboni) wrote Re: Fingerprint reader not recognized at all on Thinkpad R61 laptop | #7 |
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(Get the code!)
As far as I know it doesn't support the reader in the R61 I have here.
At least it didn't last time I checked a few months ago and in the mailing list I see no news about it.
The work so far is blocked by the fact that by reverse engineering the USB traffic on Windows, we know how to get the reader to acquire an image. But so far no one has been able to understand what is the format of that image.
So effectively, libfprint for now is not a solution (at least as far as I know, maybe please double check just to be sure).
Regarding the sensor being the same as the T61, that may be true for some early models of R61, but at some point Lenovo started fitting the R61s with readers from another brand (UPEK) which are not Linux friendly (and they did the same with the touchpad+
It's really disappointing when manufacturers change the specs of a product without changing its name, and it's definitely something I wouldn't have expected by the Thinkpad brand.