downloaded here from Lenovo<\/a>. At first I got a strange “C:\\WINDOWS path too long” error message as a part of the *.msi installation… Really strange.<\/p>\nHowever I have fixed this in the end: And my fingerprint was saved to into the Thinkpad bios with success!<\/p>\n
The Lenovo software for Windows isn’t needed any more afterwards.<\/p>\n
As a final step the gdm login can be disabled to make things 100% comfortable – by booting directly into the preferred user environment (System Settings -> User Accounts). Nice \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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The fingerprint reader of a Thinkpad T4** can be used on Linux together with the fprintd library for the usual gdm login in. But there is no way to use the fingerprint reader at power on even a power on password was defined \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n