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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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  1. 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
  2. …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
  3. …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?
  4. …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.
  5. …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.
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    Reverse engineering of Validity/Synaptics 138a:009X fingerprint reader protocol
    story by ashitlerferad · 2017-08-27 · 0 comments