Can't find the fingerprint option in my settings.
How can I enable it?
Laptop model: Lenovo flex 5
Have you had a chance to peruse this guide, yet?
It's not working
After checking the others answers, it's will not work with lenovo
I did a bit of looking around and found cases of others enabling Fingerprint reader on Lenovo Flex 5 with Ubuntu 20.04.
So, it does appear possible.
sudo apt remove fprintd
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:uunicorn/open-fprintd
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install open-fprintd fprintd-clients python3-validity
...wait a bit...
fprintd-enroll
Further reference:
I have not tested this nor do I have the means to. But there are quite a few comments in the link above so it is worth reading through them all.
I did the steps, now I can see the fingerprint on lsusb
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 27c6:550a Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co.,Ltd. FingerPrint
But still can't see it on the users settings.
Also, when try to run fprintd-enroll, I got the follwoing message list_devices failed:
I looked on the internet for this and this is what I found:
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