On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 10:35 AM, HERAULT-MARTIN Pierre <hicksc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello list users,
Hi Pierre, > I'm new to the whole fingerprint thingy. I have purchased a laptop and > it offers this fingerprint reader (Some sort of EgisTek device, it is > listed as "1c7a:0603 LighTuning Technology Inc."). > I was wondering if maybe one of you guys have had the same problem than > me. I first thought that the problem was randomly appearing, but I > noticed a pattern. > I sometimes use Windows to play some games, and I think there must be > some sort of hardware persistency in the way Windows initializes the > device, because every time I reboot to Linux, the fingerprint reader > stops working. It basically becomes crazy, and thinks I am scanning my > finger over and over again, while i just scanned it once. > > I found this thread online, but most of the links they suggest are dead: > http://www.reactivated.net/fprint_list_archives/2007-November/000159.html > > Is there anyone who could kindly point me to the correct approach for > solving this issue please? I believe that Windows either downloads new firmware to the device and/or changes some register values. In first case I don't think we can do anything but resetting the device in some way. In latter case it might be useful to dump value of registers and compare them with default. > Best regards, > Pierre. Regards, Vasily _______________________________________________ fprint mailing list fprint@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fprint
