@Sergio many thanks from me too. Yes it's working My machine is HP dv5 1299ev with fingerprint Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS101 working with Mint "julia" 2.6.35-28-generic i686 GNU/Linux
first I update the usb ids with # sudo update-usbids # lsusb | grep Fingeprint Bus 006 Device 002: ID 138a:0001 Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS101 Fingeprint Reader I downloaded: http://people.freedesktop.org/~hadess/libfprint-0.3.0.tar.bz2 I uncompressed it I installed all dependencies required for compilation libnss3-dev, libusb-1.0-0-dev and more (i do not remember) applied the second patch: $ patch -p1 < ../libfprint-0.3.0-vfs101.v5.patch then $ autoreconf && ./configure && make install $ sudo make install at the end I copy $ sudo cp /usr/lib/libfprint.* /usr/lib32/ and $ sudo cp /usr/local/lib/libfprint.* /usr/lib/ start fprint_demo as root $ sudo fprint_demo taratataaaaa -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285089 Title: [138A:0001] fingerprint reader not recognized -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs