Malte Steiner wrote: > I recently setup a Lenovo based video editing laptop (Lenovo is one of > the few manufacturers still with some notebooks including firewire port > and non glossy screen) for a friend and wonder what to do with the > fingerprint reader, isnt that a sort of scanner? Maybe like the early > consumer ones, like a big mouse you have to draw over a picture on your > own, anyone remember that times? > Can you do something fancy, maybe controller stuff with the finderprint > reader, what data provides the driver? > I had the idea you could use the fingerprint reader as a vertical scroll wheel. But it turns out the api is too shallow for that - all the raw data processing is done in firmware. The api just lets you scan a fingerprint and return a hash type value which can be compared later on to other scans. andy _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
