Greetings,
I'm having an issue with my fingerprint sensor, it doesn't show to enable in user settings. I've followed a bunch of guides but none worked. Can someone provide me a guide to install it's driver? Thanks in advance.
Hi and welcome to the forum. Can you please post the output from lspci ? You can use the terminal for that
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lsusb too please
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sudo sh -c 'cat > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/focal-dell.list << EOF
deb http://dell.archive.canonical.com/updates/ focal-dell public
# deb-src http://dell.archive.canonical.com/updates/ focal-dell public
deb http://dell.archive.canonical.com/updates/ focal-oem public
# deb-src http://dell.archive.canonical.com/updates/ focal-oem public
deb http://dell.archive.canonical.com/updates/ focal-somerville public
# deb-src http://dell.archive.canonical.com/updates/ focal-somerville public
deb http://dell.archive.canonical.com/updates/ focal-somerville-melisa public
# deb-src http://dell.archive.canonical.com/updates focal-somerville-melisa public
EOF'
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys F9FDA6BED73CDC22
sudo apt update -qq
sudo apt install oem-somerville-melisa-meta libfprint-2-tod1-goodix oem-somerville-meta tlp-config -y
Reboot and run
sudo pam-auth-update
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Did you mark it with the star and save it ?
Weird because that should fix your issue. You did reboot ?
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Yep, i rebooted after running the script and then i enabled the fingerprint option in PAM.
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i rebooted again and the problem persists 
do you know if there is a way to register my fingerprint at the terminal? Maybe your script worked but it didn't update the settings UI
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@jpgalvao, what happens if you change your layouts (lets say to the one that looks like windows) ? Can you check if there is a setting available ?
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Can you check if there is a configuration file ?
/usr/share/pam-configs/
You might need root for that
sudo -H nautilus
I don't really... Fingerprint readers in Linux are sadly lacking in much support. I have struggled with the Fingerprint issues many times with about a 30% success rate, at best.
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I'm playing along with this topic since I've never been able to get the fingerprint reader on my Dell Insprion 5570 to work. I just don't think the hardware is supported.
Following the steps above the pam-configs folder was created, but no config file.
sivartk@Inspiron-5570:/usr/share/pam-configs$ ls -al
total 40
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 8 15:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 277 root root 12288 Dec 7 08:02 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 124 Feb 17 2020 capability
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178 Feb 22 2021 fprintd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 152 Mar 11 2020 gnome-keyring
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 154 Aug 11 2020 mkhomedir
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 182 Sep 5 20:53 systemd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 668 Sep 17 01:14 unix
My fingerprint device:
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 27c6:5301 Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co.,Ltd. Fingerprint Reader
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If i am not wrong that is the fingerprint file. Can you open it ?
Contents of the file
Name: Fingerprint authentication
Default: no
Priority: 260
Conflicts: fprint
Auth-Type: Primary
Auth:
[success=end default=ignore] pam_fprintd.so max_tries=1 timeout=10 # debug
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