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Comment 124 for bug 285089

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Nick Bagios (nickbagi) wrote :

@Sergio many thanks from me too. Yes it's working
My machine is HP dv5 1299ev with fingerprint Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS101
working with Mint "julia" 2.6.35-28-generic i686 GNU/Linux

first I update the usb ids with
# sudo update-usbids

# lsusb | grep Fingeprint
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 138a:0001 Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS101 Fingeprint Reader

I downloaded: http://people.freedesktop.org/~hadess/libfprint-0.3.0.tar.bz2 I uncompressed it

I installed all dependencies required for compilation
libnss3-dev, libusb-1.0-0-dev and more (i do not remember)

applied the second patch:
$ patch -p1 < ../libfprint-0.3.0-vfs101.v5.patch

then
$ autoreconf && ./configure && make

install
$ sudo make install

at the end I copy
$ sudo cp /usr/lib/libfprint.* /usr/lib32/
and
$ sudo cp /usr/local/lib/libfprint.* /usr/lib/

start fprint_demo as root
$ sudo fprint_demo
taratataaaaa