138a:0018 Validity Sensors will not work

[Jerome Yanga]

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 1:40 PM, "Germán A. Racca" <german.racca at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 07/08/2013 03:25 PM, Jerome Yanga wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 1:40 AM, poma <pomidorabelisima at gmail.com
>> <mailto:pomidorabelisima@**gmail.com <pomidorabelisima at gmail.com>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 06.07.2013 11:31, Jerome Yanga wrote:
>>      > Thanks, Poma.
>>      >
>>      > I have compiled and installed the code in the URL you have
>> provided.
>>      >  However, I am still seeing the same issue.
>>
>>     Don't top-post, s'il vous plaît.
>>
>>     That is a library part - 'libfprint',
>>     follows a service part - 'fprintd'. ;)
>>
>>
>>     poma
>>
>>
>>
>> I didn't realize that the link to fprintd was not created by the
>> libfprint install.  I created a symlink for libfprint.so.0 and fprintd
>> works now.  Woohoo!  Thanks.
>>
>> regards,
>> j
>>
>>
>>
> Hi Jerome,
>
> Do you know what is the difference between this library that you have
> compiled and the packages in Fedora? I'm asking because I think it is the
> same project.
>
> I also have a Validity Sensors, which also doesn't work, but mine is a bit
> different than yours:
>
> $ lsusb | grep -i finger
> Bus 001 Device 004: ID 138a:0008 Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS300 Fingerprint
> Reader
>
> $ lsusb -d 138a:0008 -v
> Bus 001 Device 004: ID 138a:0008 Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS300 Fingerprint
> Reader
>
> Device Descriptor:
>   bLength                18
>   bDescriptorType         1
>   bcdUSB               1.10
>   bDeviceClass          255 Vendor Specific Class
>   bDeviceSubClass        16
>
>   bDeviceProtocol       255
>   bMaxPacketSize0         8
>   idVendor           0x138a Validity Sensors, Inc.
>   idProduct          0x0008 VFS300 Fingerprint Reader
>   bcdDevice            c.90
>
>   iManufacturer           0
>   iProduct                0
>   iSerial                 1
>   bNumConfigurations      1
> ..........
>
> These are the packages I have installed:
>
> $ rpm -qa | grep fprint
> fprintd-0.5.0-1.fc19.x86_64
> fprint_demo-0.4-12.fc19.1.x86_**64
> fprintd-pam-0.5.0-1.fc19.x86_**64
> libfprint-0.5.0-2.fc19.x86_64
>
> The package in Fedora crashes when I'm configuring my fingerprint. Would
> you show me the steps you followed to compile the library?
>
> Regards,
> Germán.
>
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German,

I do not think that you need to compile the newest driver for your sensor
as it already exists for your hardware.  Just to make sure, please provide
the output to the command below.

grep 138a /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-fprint-autosuspend.rules

Nevertheless, I merely followed the instructions in INSTALL file that came
with the driver.

https://github.com/maffmeier/fprint_vfs5011/blob/master/INSTALL

In my case, I simple ran the command below.

./configure; make; make install

regards,
j
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