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Fingerprint in Arch Linux

Saddly, it has been sold one day in 2014.

–edited Sun Apr 19 00:58:58 CST 2015

X230 is a cool laptop I ever used, not mentioned it backend by Arch Linux. Coolest thing is that it has figerprint device. You can just use “right-index-finger” to login into the system without any key pressed.

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# check device status
lsusb

# you would find something like this below
.............
    .............
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 147e:2020 Upek TouchChip Fingerprint Coprocessor (WBF advanced mode)
    .............

# install related package
    pacman -S fprintd

# scan your fingerprint by this interactive command
    fprintd-enroll
# follow the instruction, and you are all set

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