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    X1 Carbon fingerprint reader on linux

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by dreewoo, Jan 5, 2013.

  1. dreewoo

    dreewoo Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey everyone,

    I managed to make the fingerprint reader work on linux using fingerprint-gui and following information in this post:

    fingerprint-gui und das Thinkpad T430s | Volkers Blog (there's an english version after the german one)

    As a guy said in a comment, be careful when copying the content of the /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/40-libbsapi.rules, double quotes are not "classic" ones, here's the correct content:

    Code: 
    ATTRS{idVendor}=="147e", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2020",      SYMLINK+="input/touchchip-%k", MODE="0664", GROUP="plugdev"

ATTRS{idVendor}=="147e", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2020",      ATTR{power/control}=="*", ATTR{power/control}="auto"
    Also, depending on your linux distribution, you may have to copy this file to /etc/udev/rules.d/ and you may have to add your user to the groups "plugdev" and "scanner".

    fingerprint-gui should now display a "blank" Fingerprint Device, but you should be able to Scan and Configure your fingerprints.

    Hope it will be useful :)
     
    dreewoo, Jan 5, 2013
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