Grant Garrison

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Notes on the software and hardware problems I work through.

The same four steps as a list: the reader, the driver, the vendor's matcher and the desktop.
Nov 7, 2026

Getting a Windows Hello fingerprint reader to work on Linux

A cheap USB fingerprint reader only worked with Windows Hello. I got it working on Linux by running its maker's own matching engine, with no Wine and no rewrite.

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