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Feedback on the Lenovo ThinkPad P50 - Walter

Asked by Glexo Smith Kline

thinkpad p50 Thum-scanner and color sensor drivers.. how to get?

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Glexo Smith Kline (gsk+pltd.) said : 		#1

there is no driver for thumb scanner , card reader, mobile broadband, and color sensor....?

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Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew) said : 		#3

For finger-print scanner, it looks like the hardware is not supported: "Synaptics does not have any linux driver for the new touch-style fingerprint sensor in P50/P70/T460s/etc" [1]

But you can still check the finger-print GUI project [2] if interested.

For card reader and mobile broadband driver, they should be included in the kernel if they're available. Try to use a newer kernel to see if it helps. If not, you can open a bug report for that.

For the color calibrator, I guess it's not available for Linux too. There is a thread on Lenovo forum [3]

[1] https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/Validity-Fingerprint-Reader-Linux/m-p/3372137#M7991
[2] https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+archive/ubuntu/fingerprint-gui
[3] https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/P50-P70-Official-Linux-support/td-p/2275132

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