I've just installed the latest Ubuntu 21.10 on my new-to-me ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 2. I've kept the stock DE, Gnome 40.4.0. I'm working off Ubuntu's documentation, but I'm stuck on step 3:
Press on Disabled, next to Fingerprint Login to add a fingerprint for the selected account. If you are adding the fingerprint for a different user, you will first need to Unlock the panel.
The "Disabled" button/option is not appearing for me. (See screenshot below.)
The same support page says that this should work if my system has a "supported fingerprint scanner", but I cannot find documentation of the list of supported fingerprint scanners or how to determine if mine is.
I have tried installing various fingerprint packages from other StackOverflow/Reddit support requests etc., but they seem to be for different Ubuntu versions or different hardware.
How may I enable my fingerprint reader?
Edit: Including the requested output of sudo lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 138a:0097 Validity Sensors, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 13d3:5682 IMC Networks SunplusIT Integrated Camera
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0a2b Intel Corp. Bluetooth wireless interface
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 056a:50b6 Wacom Co., Ltd Pen and multitouch sensor
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Edit 2 - The thread Dave proposed has me install the PPA, which fails. Console output from the attempt to install is here.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:3v1n0/libfprint-vfs0090
Repository: 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/3v1n0/libfprint-vfs0090/ubuntu/ impish main'
Description:
Validity Fingerprint 138a:0090 and 138a:0097 (experimental) driver for Linux
- It needs to be paired with your computer using this tool:
https://github.com/3v1n0/python-validity, install it via snap:
# Initialize the device
sudo snap install validity-sensors-tools
sudo snap connect validity-sensors-tools:raw-usb
sudo snap connect validity-sensors-tools:hardware-observe
sudo validity-sensors-tools.initializer
# For validity 0097 you also need to enroll the fingers in chip
sudo validity-sensors-tools.initializer --finger-id [0...9]
- Sources and more information at
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/3v1n0/libfprint-tod-vfs0090
https://github.com/3v1n0/libfprint
More info: https://launchpad.net/~3v1n0/+archive/ubuntu/libfprint-vfs0090
Adding repository.
Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel.
Found existing deb entry in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/3v1n0-ubuntu-libfprint-vfs0090-impish.list
Adding deb entry to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/3v1n0-ubuntu-libfprint-vfs0090-impish.list
Found existing deb-src entry in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/3v1n0-ubuntu-libfprint-vfs0090-impish.list
Adding disabled deb-src entry to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/3v1n0-ubuntu-libfprint-vfs0090-impish.list
Adding key to /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/3v1n0-ubuntu-libfprint-vfs0090.gpg with fingerprint BE6CFC9508199102F68B6F683166F0E44FB01EAB
Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish InRelease
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish-backports InRelease
Hit:4 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Ign:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/3v1n0/libfprint-vfs0090/ubuntu impish InRelease
Hit:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish-security InRelease
Hit:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/linrunner/tlp/ubuntu impish InRelease
Err:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/3v1n0/libfprint-vfs0090/ubuntu impish Release
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.85 80]
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/3v1n0/libfprint-vfs0090/ubuntu impish Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
Is the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga (Gen 2) fingerprint reader one of the supported readers reference on Ubuntu's documentation page? How can I determine that?
