On 6 April 2008 13:41:37 collectif Fossile wrote: > Hi everybody ! > > we are a french group of artists, currently developping an installation > in-situ in Tours (France). The whole work deals with fingerprints > considered as a graphical element and a way to question people about > biometry. > > Our installation (temporarily named "digimap") uses a microsoft fingerprint > reader on ubuntu studio. We're not using the authentification functions > yet, and all we have to do is to detect the presence of a finger on the > device, scan it and use binarization and minutiae detection functions. I've > been compiling libfprint 0.0.6 (thanks for this release !) on an old > Toshiba laptop running Ubuntu and it works great. Our device would not be > detected with 0.0.5 version. > > The actual problem is that I would like to use the same device on a Lenovo > R61i 7650 A9G with Ubuntu studio. I've installed the same .dev libraries we > needed to run it on Ubuntu, but it doesn't work! In Fprint demo, the device > is detected (it flashes red lights) and the required driver is identified > (URU4000), but the dialog box says "Could not open device" > > As I'm a newbie to Linux, Ubuntu, and Libfprint, Il would appreciate very > much any troubleshooting suggestion or related experiences ! The first > version of our project is supposed to be ready and on 15th march. > > thanks a lot ! > > Samuel for the Collectif Fossile
It seems that you have problems with permissions on usbfs. I don't know how to fix it in ubuntu, in gentoo you just have to add your user to usb group, and that's all. Regards Vasily _______________________________________________ fprint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.reactivated.net/mailman/listinfo/fprint
