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Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

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On 06/03/2021 11:24, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 06:13:58PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
>>>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Pearson <markpearson@lenovo.com> writes:
>>
>>     Mark> It's just a case of needing the libfprint and fprintd packages
>>     Mark> installed and then under settings->user you can start
>>     Mark> registering your prints.
>>
>> Right, and the desktop maintainers could choose to make their desktop
>> meta packages depend on these two packages.
>> That was my point.
> 
> While this true, it would mean that the fingerprint readers would only
> work for those users who choose to install one of the desktops on their
> system that adds this dependency.
> 
> If it is added to the laptop metapackage instead, then it will be made
> available on all laptops, which are more likely than other hardware to
> have a fingerprint reader.
> 
> If it is instead installed by hardware detection (through
> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/hw-detect), then it will be
> installed on all systems that have a fingerprint reader (and which don't
> have it disabled in the BIOS, which you should do at any rate if you're
> not interested in using it), regardless of whether they are a laptop,
> desktop, or server. However, the downside to this method is that unless
> there is a way to identify all fingerprint readers by way of a PCI or
> USB attribute (and I have no idea whether this is possible), you'll have
> to compile a list of vendor and product IDs, which by necessity will be
> forever incomplete.
> 
libfprint have a list of all supported devices which should be helpful -
based on USB ID:

https://fprint.freedesktop.org/supported-devices.html

Mark

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Debian and fingerprint readers Mark Pearson <markpearson@lenovo.com> - 2021-02-24 22:20 +0100
  Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-02-25 07:40 +0100
    Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2021-03-04 16:40 +0100
      Re: Debian and fingerprint readers William Bonnet <william@wbonnet.net> - 2021-03-04 17:10 +0100
        Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2021-03-05 09:20 +0100
  Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2021-03-05 00:20 +0100
    Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2021-03-05 09:20 +0100
      Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2021-03-05 12:20 +0100
        Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Pirate Praveen <praveen@onenetbeyond.org> - 2021-03-07 16:20 +0100
      Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Mark Pearson <markpearson@lenovo.com> - 2021-03-06 00:30 +0100
        Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2021-03-06 00:30 +0100
          Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2021-03-06 17:30 +0100
            Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-03-07 03:40 +0100
            Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-03-07 11:00 +0100
              Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-03-07 13:40 +0100
            Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Mark Pearson <markpearson@lenovo.com> - 2021-03-08 18:40 +0100
        Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers Mark Pearson <markpearson@lenovo.com> - 2021-03-06 16:10 +0100

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