On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Moritz von Schweinitz <[email protected]> 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. > _______________________________________________ > fprint mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fprint _______________________________________________ fprint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fprint
