MarcinR staggered into the Black Sun and said: > I've got [an] HP Pavilion dv6625ew with a built-in fingerprint reader. > I wonder how to make it [work] under linux. I've searched google for > this but the only thing I've found are some hacks for Suse ([which] > don't work for me). So how do they fail, then? Fedora != SuSE in many ways, but Linux distros are all similar to one another. Explain what these hacks entail--are they kernel modules? Most distros apply a metric assload of patches to the kernels they provide. These patches do not always increase functionality, and typically screw up some 3rd-party modules. People who are building/testing 3rd-party modules tend to build and test them against the vanilla tree, for reasons which should be immediately obvious to the casual observer. > [I also noticed] that this solution is only [to] make it work > 'somehow', but it isn't very useful yet, because it isn't integrated > with [linux's] login mechanisms. O RLY? Discussions on the IBM-Thinkpad list ( http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad ) say that there's a PAM for this, at least a PAM that works with the fingerprint readers on Thinkpads. I am short on details here, mostly because my Thinkpad T42p lacks a fingerprint reader. That and the fact that most fingerprint readers are easy enough to defeat with Jello and/or a hacksaw applied to the fingerprint owner's fingers. HTH anyway, -- Hope is gone and she confessed / When you lay your dreams to rest You can get what's second best / But it's hard to get enough... --David Wilcox, "Eye of the Hurricane" Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see