fingerprint reader Authentec, inc AES1600

[Evertjan Garretsen]

If i'm correct Ubuntu supports fingerprint readers in user accounts as i read on the page: https://help.ubuntu.com/11.04/ubuntu-help/session-fingerprint.html

I cannot find a list of supported devices, but do know that my device is not natively supported.

I installed Fingerprint Gui and it does support my fingerprint reader.

It would be nice to add the driver for AES1600 from authentec to Ubuntu and the supported devices as well as the others supported by fingerprint GUI. I'm not a driver developer, but as Fingerprint GUI can find the fingerprint reader i think it should not be too difficult to incorporate it in Ubuntu. Or am i wrong?

Althoug Fingerprint gui works somewhat stable. It does crash sometimes and the look of it is not native and nice in my honest opinion.

Maybe someone with experience can tell me if fingerprint gui (at least the driver part) can be incorporated in Ubuntu?

Thanks for all your good work!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.4.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon May 14 15:48:00 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120328)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
XsessionErrors:
 gnome-session[12588]: WARNING: Failed to start app: Unable to start application: Uitvoeren van dochterproces ‘/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1’ is mislukt (Bestand of map bestaat niet)
 (compiz:12653): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_client_add_dir: assertion `gconf_valid_key (dirname, NULL)' failed
 (fingerprint-polkit-agent:12671): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
 (fingerprint-polkit-agent:12671): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 activity-log-manager-control-center 0.9.4-0ubuntu3
 deja-dup 22.0-0ubuntu2
 gnome-bluetooth 3.2.2-0ubuntu5
 indicator-datetime 0.3.94-0ubuntu2