[clug] Re: Nvidia based Laptops in the $1200-$2000 range

Mark Purcell mark at purcell.id.au
Fri Jun 5 08:04:35 GMT 2009


On Friday 05 June 2009 17:49:45 Jim Croft wrote:
> See from the specs it has a fingerprint reader?   Does Ubuntu (or
> similar) know about these things yet?   I have tried to drive them on
> a number of laptop machines with Ubuntu and they remain silent.  Not
> really a show stopper, but mildly irritating.

Have a look at fprint which will read from the fingerprint scanner.

You can integrate with PAM, but I could only get it working every other time 
:-(

Mark
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