[fprint] fprint_demo "no device found" for 0483:2015

[Vasily Khoruzhick]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Moritz von Schweinitz
<schweini at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, so I finally got fprint_demo-0.4 and libfprint-0.4.0 to compile
> from source on debian 6.0 (squeeze). Quite a few dependancies!
>
> I have not installed fprintd, because aget many packages, i am stuck on
>
> Requested 'gio-2.0 >= 2.26' but version of GIO is 2.24.2
>
> but, AFAIK, fprintd shouldn't be necessary for fprint_demo to work? Or
> am I wrong?
>
> anyhow, fprint_demo starts up, but just gives me a "Status: No Devices
> Found" error.
>
> here's the lsusb output:
>
> Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0483:2015 SGS Thomson Microelectronics
> TouchChip� Fingerprint Reader
> Bus 002 Device 002: ID 80ee:0021 VirtualBox USB Tablet
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
>
> the funny thing is that
> a) 0483:2015 is listed as 'supported' on the website, but it's called
> some different names.
> b) many moons ago, i did get this particular reader to work, on some
> old ubuntu version
> c) there seem to have been some changes to the driver in the last
> couple of years: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.fprint/2096

0483:2015 device driver was ported to asynchronous model only in
libfprint-0.5.0,
so you have to update libfprint.

Regards
Vasily

> So, what am i doing wrong? How can i get this to work?
>
> M.
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