Hardware • Fingerprint reader not working on T480s

Hello,
I try to make it a bit structured, but don't wont to sound blunt in any way:

Issue
Tried to setup fingerprint reader according to the wiki [1].
I get an error:Expected behavior
Software works without the error

What i found in google
There seams to be a way to make it work on ubuntu [2]. This includes adding a third party repository, using software that was remove from the repositories [3] and abandoned software [4]. Anyway the solution for ubuntu hints me that this is a proprietary driver issue. This sounds like a bad fix for something that handels userauth to me.

Final thoughts
Since bookworm we have enabled the non-free-firmware repository by default. maybe it would be possible to fix the problem if it really is caused by non-free-firmware. Unfortunately i don't know where to bug-report this. From what i get a satisfying solution for my problem seems not really in sight.

Used Hardware & Software
Lenovo Thinkpad t480s
Linux: 6.1.0-18-amd64
Debain: bookworm
fprintd version: 1.94.2-2
Finger-print reader: Synaptics, Inc. Metallica MIS Touch Fingerprint Reader


Links:
[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/SecurityManagem ... entication
[2]: https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/20 ... der-t480s/
[3]: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/py ... alidictory
[4]: https://github.com/uunicorn/open-fprintd

Statistics: Posted by nachtpfoetchen — 2024-03-01 12:31 — Replies 0 — Views 26

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