The operating system is a collection of the basic instructions that tell the electronic parts of the computer what to do and how to work. GNU/Linux is a free and open source software operating system for computers. To prevent yourself from accidentally installing the new version of fprint update the pacman configuration sudo nvim /etc/pacman.Please Read the full Rules here before posting or commenting Reboot and your fingerprint reader should be working now Next install the older fprint package sudo pacman -U īut before you run this, you will have to download the key and move it to the pacman cache directory sudo mv ~/Downloads/fprintd-0.8.1-2-x86_64.sig /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ For this you will have to go to the Archlinux archives įirst libfprint package (I use trizen, you could be using pacaur) trizen -S libfprint-vfs0097-git -noconfirm If you have installed the new driver sudo pacman -R libfprint-2.so & sudo pacman -R fprintd You will have to revert to the old version of Fprintd to get it working again libfprintd-2.so does not support the Thinkpad Carbon 5 fingerprint driver, so it will not be detected any more.
If you updated Fprintd to the new version, then its likely that the fingerprint reader will not be detected anymore. UPDATE 02/2020 for Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 5 (2017)Īn update was made to Fprintd which requires libfprint-2.so. Simply putting your finger on the reader without hitting the return key won’t work. NOTE: You will have to hit the Enter/Return key and wait for the fingerprint reader to light up. The best part is being able to login from the lock screen. You should now be able to use your fingerprint to login as root or your alias. System_Local_login auth sufficient pam_fprintd.soĪuth required pam_unix_auth.so try_first_pass Login (You may not need this if you are using i3wm): auth sufficient pam_thinkfinger.soĪuth required pam_unix.so use_first_pass nullok_secure Entries in each of these files are listed below The files being System_Local_Login, Su, Sudo, i3lock. Obviously, you will need to sudo to make the changes. you need to edit the following files in /etc/pam.d/. If you are an alias to the “root”, then you will need to enrol the root’s fingerprint and verify it using fprintd. Also, I’ve used I3Lock instead of xscreensaver. I think I preferred i3lock and Fprint because they seemed to be much easier to configure.Īfter you have enrolled and verified your fingerprint using fprint. I’ve used Fprint (instead of ThinkFinger) to lock and unlock my screen. This post is just a scribble for me to remember how to configure and use the fingerprint reader on my X1-Carbon more effectively with Arch-Linux
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