nmikhailov/Validity90
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Reverse engineering of Validity/Synaptics 138a:0090, 138a:0094, 138a:0097, 06cb:0081, 06cb:009a fingerprint readers protocol
6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2017-08-27 · latest 2019-06-17
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Fingerprint reader support is in progress: https://github.com/nmikhailov/Validity90 Here is a list from Arch Linux about current support: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Laptop/Lenovo
comment by isodude · 2019-06-17 · in Linux support on Lenovo personal systems -
…driver for the fingerprint reader. Currently there only seems to be a reverse engineered prototype: https://github.com/nmikhailov/Validity90
comment by sgeisler · 2019-06-17 · in Linux support on Lenovo personal systems -
…to it. Everything else works except for the fingerprint sensor and there's a project for that ( https://github.com/nmikhailov/Validity90 )
comment by mediaserf · 2018-07-21 · in What are good linux laptops for 2018? -
…There’s an effort to reverse engineer the Windows drivers for this class of fingerprint sensors at https://github.com/nmikhailov/Validity90 but honestly I don’t care much about fingerprint readers on a laptop.
comment by lorenzhs · 2018-03-30 · in ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2018 review: The only laptop in a professional’s paradise -
…through the trouble of reverse-engineering the fingerprint sensor. The code works on my thinkpad. https://github.com/nmikhailov/Validity90 Only thing left is someone willing to clean up the code and upstream it.
comment by Fronzie · 2018-01-06 · in Leaving htop running freezes macOS High Sierra