[Thinkfinger-devel] Request for testing / ThinkFinger 0.2.1 pre-release

[Timo Hoenig]

Hi,

Some of you know that for some systems it is required to run 'tf-init'
before being able to use the fingerprint reader. I have now prepared a
patch [1] which attempts to eliminate that.

As I only have a couple of systems on which I could verify that I do not
break anything I am asking anyone to give the pre-release tar ball [2]
of ThinkFinger 0.2.1 a try.

The typical test run to verify that things work out as expected is:

* remove any previous version of ThinkFinger
* install the pre-release of ThinkFinger 0.2.1
* reboot
* run 'tf-tool --acquire' (as root)
* run 'tf-tool --verify' (as root)

If your system is capable of either suspend to RAM or suspend to disk it
would be good to check if ThinkFinger also works after a successful
suspend cycle.

Please share your results. Especially, if you see any divergences in
operation compared to ThinkFinger 0.2 and/or the current version in SVN.

Thanks for your attention and good luck :-)

Timo

[1] Patch against SVN HEAD
http://beta.suse.com/private/thoenig/src/ThinkFinger/thinkfinger-fix-init-thoenig-01.patch

[2] ThinkFinger 0.2.1 (pre-release)
http://beta.suse.com/private/thoenig/src/ThinkFinger/thinkfinger-0.2.1pre.tar.bz2

[Timo Hoenig]

Post by Timo Hoenig
Some of you know that for some systems it is required to run 'tf-init'
before being able to use the fingerprint reader. I have now prepared a
patch [1] which attempts to eliminate that.

Changes were applied and checked into SVN.

Timo