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

[Moritz von Schweinitz]

Ok, I disabled ALL the 'aes' drivers (because of compiler errors), and
now the examples 'verify' and 'enroll' which are included seem work.
fprint_demo still doesnt recognize the reader, though.

M.

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Vasily Khoruzhick <anarsoul at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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