Fingerprint reader not recognized

[thebiblelover7]

I have a Samsung Galaxy Book Flex Alpha and I have been trying to be able to login with my fingerprint with no avail. I heard that Manjaro natively supported fingerprint login but I didn’t see any option for it.

Is this the right place to ask this?

Output from lsusb:

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04e8:730b Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd Fingerprint Sensor Device - 730B

[realmain]

Please read these articles and see if these work for you:

• fprint - ArchWiki
• Fingerprint GUI - ArchWiki

@thebiblelover7

I heard that Manjaro natively supported fingerprint login

I could be wrong, but I don’t believe Manjaro ISOs have the fingerprint package preinstalled.

Edit: SOME editions have fprintd but not all of them. I.E. KDE edition doesn’t have it, GNOME edition does.

[pobrn]

Check the list of supported devices. It seems that particular device is not on the list.

[thebiblelover7]

What should I do then?

[realmain]

@thebiblelover7

What should I do then?

If fprintd doesn’t support your device, then your options are:

1. Don’t use the fingerprint sensor
2. Get a device that supports fprintd or thinkfinger (thinkpads)
3. Use Windows

Note: It isn’t Linux’s fault that a fingerprint sensor isn’t supported. It’s the manufacturer not releasing drivers to support it on Linux. And reverse engineering a proprietary product to openly support it as a community is not easy.

[acutbal]

In my case, my ThinkPad’s fingerprint sensor it’s not in that list:

So I understand that it isn’t supported.
C’est la vie…

[realmain]

@acutbal

my ThinkPad’s fingerprint sensor it’s not in that list:

@realmain

or thinkfinger (thinkpads)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ThinkFinger

[acutbal]

ThinkFinger doesn’t apply to my ThinkPad because its sensor is from Synaptics rather than SGS Thomson Microelectronics…