[138a:0097] Validity sensor driver request

[Filip Suste]

Hi,

On Lenovo T470p there is a Validity fingerprint sensor with id [138a:0097]. It is not in the supported drivers list, but I would love to see it amongst the supported ones.

Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release: 16.04

1516059979.187 fp:debug [fp_init]
1516059979.188 fp:debug [register_driver] registered driver upekts
1516059979.188 fp:debug [register_driver] registered driver upeke2
1516059979.188 fp:debug [register_driver] registered driver aes4000
1516059979.188 fp:debug [register_driver] registered driver aes2501
1516059979.188 fp:debug [register_driver] registered driver aes2550
1516059979.188 fp:debug [register_driver] registered driver uru4000
1516059979.188 fp:debug [register_driver] registered driver vcom5s
1516059979.188 fp:debug [register_driver] registered driver upeksonly
1516059979.188 fp:debug [register_driver] registered driver aes1610
1516059979.188 fp:debug [register_driver] registered driver aes1660
1516059979.188 fp:debug [register_driver] registered driver aes2660
1516059979.188 fp:debug [register_driver] registered driver vfs101
1516059979.188 fp:debug [register_driver] registered driver vfs301
1516059979.188 fp:debug [register_driver] registered driver vfs5011
1516059979.188 fp:debug [register_driver] registered driver upektc
1516059979.322 fp:debug [fp_exit]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Redsandro (redsandro)]

I second that. For Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Same hardware on Lenovo X1 Yoga.

Resources:

https://certification.ubuntu.com/catalog/component/usb/4222/138a%3A0097/
https://github.com/nmikhailov/Validity90#status
https://github.com/hrenod/libfprint#validity-sensor-138a0097-libfprint-driver

[Alessandro Barracane (alegbarra)]

Hi,
same for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Debian 10 testing.

Lenovo P51 use same sensor (Validity with id [138a:0097]), and it is not recognized by libfprint.

in project https://github.com/nmikhailov/Validity90#status, there is an utility named "prototype", that tests the sensor and seems to work correctly, led and finger scanner works.

[Neil Underwood (n-underwood78)]

I'd like to request this as well. Ubuntu 18.04. Tested the "prototype" on my T470 on Ubuntu 16.04 before I upgraded and it worked as well. Would be outstanding to have fingerprint functionality on this thing.

[Galen Asphaug (galenasphaug)]

Same problem with same device on 19.04 using a Thinkpad X1 Carbon 5th generation.

[Ishank Juneja (ishank-juneja)]

No official Linux drivers available for Validity Sensors: 138a:0097 as of September 1, 2019 on Ubuntu 18.04

[Skip Index (skipindex)]

No official Linux drivers available for Validity Sensors: 138a:0097 as of October 11, 2019 on Ubuntu 18.04.

Please help up out!

[Egil Sørensen (egil)]

I have the same issue on my Lenovo T570 laptop which has been certified for Ubuntu as well.

The component is listed here:

https://certification.ubuntu.com/catalog/component/138a:0097

[Christian Fuchs (chrisfubuntu)]

Same Bug. "Could not access any fingerprint readers. Please contact your system administrator for help" when trying to enable Fingerprint login under the user settings in Ubuntu 20.04

Hardware: Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon 5th Gen (2017).
1st OS: Linux Mint 18.3 (based on Ubuntu 16.04)
2nd OS: Ubuntu 20.04

[Skip Index (skipindex)]

For different reasons I switched to Manjaro. On that distribution I installed a package that got the fingerprint scanner working. The package is: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libfprint-vfs0097-git

Beware though, it depends on an older version of libfprint.

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

Drivers requests are upstream bugs and as such should be redirected to the official wiki

 - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libfprint/wiki/-/wikis/Unsupported-Devices

As per this, I'm closing all the requests, I please you to update that wiki page if needed.