Somes problem after resume, and purpose

[LEVIS Cyril]

Binary package hint: thinkfinger-tools

After which install of my m1330,
I install my fingerprint reader with thinkfinger-tools.

I can use it with gnome-screeensaver with this workaround at the botton of this page: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_enable_the_fingerprint_reader_with_ThinkFinger

The problem, after resume from suspend to disk, gnome-screensaver ask me to swip my finger or enter the password, BUT after suspend to ram, it ask me only my password. I must presss ENTER on time, then it asks me to swip my finger or enter my password.

How to solve this?

And could you automatise this tweak? It is a little security hole they say, is it for why it isn't activate by default? PolicyKit can maybe solve this??

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Please try with the package uploaded to Ubuntu rather than applying work-arounds from the Internet.

[Roger Binns (ubuntu-rogerbinns)]

I can confirm this using only Ubuntu packages on a fresh Hardy install (and on a second machine). http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_enable_the_fingerprint_reader_with_ThinkFinger#Hardy

If you do a resume within a few seconds of a suspend then you are asked for a fingerprint swipe. If you wait longer then you are not. My guess as to the cause is that the fingerprint hardware (connected as a USB device) takes a few seconds to power off completely and a few to power on completely. When doing a resume after it has powered off, thinkfinger checks for device presence too soon.

[Roger Binns (ubuntu-rogerbinns)]

Happens on two different freshly installed Thinkpad T61s.

[Mozg (andrei-arhont)]

Can confirm this behaviour in ubuntu Jaunty Beta using thinkfinger-tools version 0.3+r118-0ubuntu4. When returning from either suspend to disk or ram, the swipe finger option is not available in gnomescreensaver.