I stupidly forgot to include details on my setup: The machine I'm using the fingerprint reader with is a new desktop (not the laptop I mentioned in my original post) running Ubuntu 14.04 and fingerprint-gui 1.05-dfsg2-0ppa2~trusty1 from the ppa.
I stupidly forgot to include details on my setup: The machine I'm using the fingerprint reader with is a new desktop (not the laptop I mentioned in my original post) running Ubuntu 14.04 and fingerprint-gui 1.05-dfsg2- 0ppa2~trusty1 from the ppa.