[fprint] Egistec ES603 Driver

Patrick Marlier patrick.marlier at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 06:08:51 PDT 2012


Ronnie,

On 09/04/2012 10:25 AM, Ronnie Koch wrote:
> On 08/13/2012 20:20 PM, Patrick Marlier wrote:
>
>> I have also added a ubuntu package for 12.04 amd64 in the download section.
>
> Patrick,
>
> Had an urge this morning to see if I could get the fingerprint reader
> on my Lenovo B570 with Ubuntu 12.04 (updated) working and eventually
> found and downloaded/installed your driver.
Thanks!

> I do not have any experience with fingerprint readers (nor any real
> interest/business requirement at the moment) but the reader/driver
> seems to work although the scanner seems very sensitive to finger
> orientation (which could be normal :).
Indeed, the orientation seems important to me too.

> After some fooling around I enrolled one finger, first from cli and the
> current image with fprint_demo. It works for initial login and sudo
> from cli (at least once each :) and I will keep it installed for a
> while and see what else works as long as it remains un-intrusive.
>
> Anything specifically you want me to test ?
Do you say that the fingerprint is good quality in the fprint_demo? How 
many minutiae?

Thanks a lot for testing. I will update the driver soon and it may 
improve the scan.

Regards,
--
Patrick


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