Comment 120 for bug 285089

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Javier Domingo (txomon) wrote : Re: [Bug 285089] Re: [138A:0001] fingerprint reader not recognized

We actually know, please report a new bug, and post the bug id here to
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I am interested on it

Javier domingo
El 28/03/2011 21:22, "Stjepan Brbot" <email address hidden> escribió:
> I do have Validity Inc. fingerprint reader VFS451 (id=138a:0007) and use
> Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit.
>
> I installed all dependencies required for compilation (libusb-1.0.0-dev,
> libnss3-dev,...)
>
> I downloaded:
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hadess/libfprint-0.3.0.tar.bz2 and
uncompressed it
> I donwloaded both patches
>
> inside dir where previous tar file was uncompressed I applied the first
patch:
> $ patch -p1 < ../libfprint-0.3.0-vfs101.patch
>
> and applied second patch:
> $ patch -p1 < ../libfprint-0.3.0-vfs101.v5.patch
>
> afterwards I started configuration and compilation:
> $ autoreconf && ./configure && make
>
> compilation finished fine and I started install
> $ sudo make install
>
> installation installed libraries and I manually copied all libraries into
64 arch lib dir:
> $ sudo cp /usl/lib/libfprint.* /usr/lib64/
>
> I started:
> $ sudo fprint_demo
>
> NOTHING!!! IT DOES NOT WORK
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285089
>
> Title:
> [138A:0001] fingerprint reader not recognized
>
> Status in “libfprint” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> usb id 138A:0001 is a DigitalPersona fingerprint reader which doesn't get
recognized by Ubuntu
> I think (although I'm not sure) all that's needed is to add this specific
USB ID to a relevant list?
>
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