[fprint] Fwd: Re: Help with reader.

[Dr. No]

Am 29.12.2015 um 10:02 schrieb Arjoonn Sharma:
> Hi Martin,
> I am new to this so please excuse the clumsiness.
> 
> lsusb returns
> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 138a:0005 Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS301
> Fingerprint Reader
> 
> fprintd-0.6.0-1 is installed from AUR which I believe is the Git master.
> 
> on running fprintd-enroll the following happens:
> 
> ```
> Using device /net/reactivated/Fprint/Device/0
> Enrolling right-index-finger finger.
> Enroll result: enroll-stage-passed
> ```
> 
> The program never goes beyond that.
Can you take a look an the kernel ring buffer. On F23 there was an
kernel problem, that will result in an disconnect of the device after
enroll. With the last kernel it was fixed.

> 
> Sincerely,
> Arjoonn Sharma
> 
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Martin Hejnfelt <martin at duffman.dk
> <mailto:martin at duffman.dk>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Arjoonn,
> 
>     On Mon, 2015-12-28 at 23:17 +0530, Arjoonn Sharma wrote:
>     > Hello,
>     >
>     > I have a device prebuilt into my laptop
>     >
>     It's always nice to get some USB information, usually lsusb output gives
>     a good idea about the device...
> 
>     > which has denied all my efforts to get it to work under Linux.
>     >
>     > I am not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I do not know
>     > where else to ask.
>     >
>     >
>     > Now after installing libfprint and fprintd through various paths
>     > (apt-get , building, etc)
>     >
>     Which versions have you been using? Building from git master or? The
>     packaged versions with many distros are oooooold...
> 
>     > whenever I try to enroll the fingers, the scanner scans the finger
>     > once, then gets stuck
>     >
>     > at the second scan.
>     >
>     I've had a similar issue with a Digital Persona device. It was resolved
>     long ago in the official code repository
>     http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libfprint/libfprint/commit/?id=9f408bf51b7740e87c3d0b90e5adc5de3c37c052
> 
>     I don't know if you are seeing the same issue, but in order to help,
>     more information about device would be nice...
> 
>     Best regards,
>     Martin
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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