Great news! Many others are waiting for this driver. I have just the same laptop as you do. Others that have different laptops could try out and check if this works.
There is a fedora, an ubuntu and a xorg bug for this. If this works, and don't break others, this is a very welcome contribution. Thanks for your work! Cheers, --- Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca, Me. [email protected] 2010/8/28 Hugo "Bonstra" Grostabussiat <[email protected]>: > Hi, > I have a Compal (JHL90) laptop featuring an integrated UPEK fingerprint > sensor (probably model TCS4C), which have USB ID 147e:1000. This model > wasn't supported by libfprint-0.1.0-pre2, that's why I decided to write > a driver for it. > To do so, I analyzed traffic on the USB bus between the device and a > Linux version of BSAPI, a proprietary library provided by UPEK. I didn't > disassemble any binary. > As this device shares some similarities with the other device already > supported by upeksonly driver, I chose to modify that driver to allow it > to support both devices. > By the way, I corrected a minor bug that was causing some garbage to > appear in scanned image. > So here comes the result. Apply the attached patch against > libfprint-0.1.0-pre2. > As I could only test it with my own device, I have no idea whether it > still works for the other device already supported. Some testing would > be welcome. > In addition to the patch itself, I attached a text document describing > technical aspects of the device. It may be useful to help support other > similar UPEK devices. > Cheers. > > Hugo Grostabussiat > > _______________________________________________ > fprint mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.reactivated.net/mailman/listinfo/fprint > > _______________________________________________ fprint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.reactivated.net/mailman/listinfo/fprint
