Description
Validity fingerprint sensor driver.
This builds from git for a fix to make this work on immutable flavors.
Installation Instructions
On Fedora Workstation:
$ sudo dnf copr enable sneexy/python-validity
$ sudo dnf install open-fprintd fprintd-clients fprintd-clients-pam python3-validity
On Fedora CoreOS/Silverblue/Kinoite/Any immutable flavor:
$ cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
$ sudo wget https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/sneexy/python-validity/repo/fedora-$(rpm -E %fedora)/sneexy-python-validity-fedora-$(rpm -E %fedora).repo
$ rpm-ostree override remove fprintd fprintd-pam --install open-fprintd --install fprintd-clients --install fprintd-clients-pam --install python3-validity
Prepare
$ sudo systemctl start python3-validity.service
$ sudo systemctl start open-fprintd.service
$ sudo systemctl enable open-fprintd-resume.service open-fprintd-suspend.service open-fprintd.service python3-validity.service
Setup fingerprint auth
$ sudo authselect enable-feature with-fingerprint
$ sudo authselect apply-changes
and check
$ sudo authselect current
Profile ID: sssd
Enabled features:
- with-silent-lastlog
- with-fingerprint
Troubleshooting
If you have problems with your fingerprint reader after waking up/coming back from sleep/suspend, enable the alternative services after disabling the built-in ones:
$ sudo systemctl disable open-fprintd-resume.service open-fprintd-suspend.service
$ sudo systemctl enable open-fprintd-restart-after-resume.service python3-validity-restart-after-resume.service
Readme.md from the original repository
Active Releases
The following unofficial repositories are provided as-is by owner of this project. Contact the owner directly for bugs or issues (IE: not bugzilla).
Release | Architectures | Repo Download |
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i386 (2)*, x86_64 (48)* | Fedora 38 (0 downloads) |
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i386 (3)*, x86_64 (956)* | Fedora 39 (138 downloads) |
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i386 (12)*, x86_64 (4091)* | Fedora 40 (694 downloads) |
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i386 (0)*, x86_64 (8)* | Fedora 41 (5 downloads) |
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i386 (24)*, x86_64 (17)* | Fedora rawhide (34 downloads) |
* Total number of downloaded packages.
Quick Enable
#> dnf copr enable sneexy/python-validity
More info about enabling Copr repositories