cant get thinkfinger to work

[aliencam]

can't get thinkfinger to work...


I am using a Thinkpad X61t and Ubuntu Hardy.

In ubuntu gutsy (7.10) I was able to use thinkfinger by adding the launchpad repos, and everything worked perfectly. When I upgraded to gutsy beta using the upgrade manager, thinkfinger still worked, but I prefer to reformat and reinstall fresh every 6 months anyway, and after I reformatted, I can no longer get it to work.

I have tried following these guides:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinkFinger
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_en ... ger#Ubuntu

I have tried the thinkfinger 3.0 that is in the ubuntu repositories, I have tried building tf 3.0 from source, and I have tried building thinkfinger 2.2 from source, but none of them work anymore.

when i do tf-tool --acquire, I get asked to swipe my finger 3 times, and that works fine, but then after that it gives me an error while it is trying to save the file.

I DO run as sudo, and I have also tried running as root by using su.

I do have the kernel module uinput loaded, and it is in my /etc/modules to load at startup.


error message from 0.2.2 built from source:

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Please swipe your finger (successful swipes 3/3, failed swipes: 3)... done.
Storing data (/tmp/test.bir)...tf-tool: TF_STATE_COMM_FAILED (255)
Error: Could not acquire fingerprint.

and here is the error with 0.3 built from source

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cameron@cameron-x61t-ubuntu:~/Desktop/thinkfinger-0.3$ sudo tf-tool --acquire

ThinkFinger 0.3 (http://thinkfinger.sourceforge.net/)
Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Timo Hoenig <thoenig@suse.de>

Initializing... done.
Please swipe your finger (successful swipes 3/3, failed swipes: 0)... done.
Storing data (/tmp/test.bir)...Could not acquire fingerprint (communication with fingerprint reader failed).

I tried to install 0.3 from the repos again after having installed 0.2.2, but it wouldnt do anything. even after a restart all that tf-tool showed was the 0.2.2 version...