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Thanks for the work. It works with my Dell XPS 15 9500 (device id 27c6:533c) on Fedora Workstation 39 and I was able to directly configure the fingerprint from the Gnome GUI instead of the fprintd-enroll command.

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Can you please add support for this model too?
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 27c6:55a2 Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co.,Ltd.
Thanks a lot.

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Thanks for this. Working on my Dell XPS 13 9300. Had to remove the existing libfprint due to conflicts (--allowerasing)

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Resolved:
The following commands were also needed for me, and then it worked:

sudo authselect current
sudo authselect enable-feature with-fingerprint
sudo authselect apply-changes

Iā€™ll leave the rest of the (long) post, for reference in case it helps othersā€¦

Iā€™m trying to get the fingerprint reader working on xps 15 9500, device id 27c6:533c, fresh f39 install.

When I ran the command for to install libfprint-tod-goodix dnf failed to install because there was a conflict with fprintd.

Error: Transaction test error:
  file /usr/lib/udev/hwdb.d/60-autosuspend-libfprint-2.hwdb from install of libfprint-tod-1.94.5-2.fc39.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libfprint-1.94.6-1.fc39.x86_64
  file /usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/FPrint-2.0.typelib from install of libfprint-tod-1.94.5-2.fc39.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libfprint-1.94.6-1.fc39.x86_64
  file /usr/lib64/libfprint-2.so.2.0.0 from install of libfprint-tod-1.94.5-2.fc39.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libfprint-1.94.6-1.fc39.x86_64

I manually removed fprintd, which also removed fprintd-pam.

I was then able to install libfprint-tod-goodix. The systemctl and fprintd-enroll commands worked.

But I donā€™t seem to have any way to use fingerprint authentication.

$ systemctl status fprintd output:

ā—‹ fprintd.service - Fingerprint Authentication Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/fprintd.service; static)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
             ā””ā”€10-timeout-abort.conf
     Active: inactive (dead)
       Docs: man:fprintd(1)

Apr 14 09:52:07 DESKTOP-6P1365N.lan systemd[1]: Started fprintd.service - Fingerprint Authentication Daemon.
Apr 14 09:52:37 DESKTOP-6P1365N.lan systemd[1]: fprintd.service: Deactivated successfully.
Apr 14 10:04:37 DESKTOP-6P1365N.lan systemd[1]: Starting fprintd.service - Fingerprint Authentication Daemon...
Apr 14 10:04:37 DESKTOP-6P1365N.lan fprintd[11976]: Creating TOD wrapper for goodix-tod (Goodix Fingerprint Sensor 53>
Apr 14 10:04:37 DESKTOP-6P1365N.lan systemd[1]: Started fprintd.service - Fingerprint Authentication Daemon.
Apr 14 10:05:07 DESKTOP-6P1365N.lan systemd[1]: fprintd.service: Deactivated successfully.
Apr 14 10:33:03 DESKTOP-6P1365N.lan systemd[1]: Starting fprintd.service - Fingerprint Authentication Daemon...
Apr 14 10:33:04 DESKTOP-6P1365N.lan fprintd[13051]: Creating TOD wrapper for goodix-tod (Goodix Fingerprint Sensor 53>
Apr 14 10:33:04 DESKTOP-6P1365N.lan systemd[1]: Started fprintd.service - Fingerprint Authentication Daemon.
Apr 14 10:33:34 DESKTOP-6P1365N.lan systemd[1]: fprintd.service: Deactivated successfully.

Edit:
I ran through the process again and noticed:

  1. The status shows active (running) when first running the systemctl command (after installing goodix)
  2. After a few minutes, the status changes to inactive (dead)
  3. After running enroll the output changes:
systemctl status fprintd
ā— fprintd.service - Fingerprint Authentication Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/fprintd.service; static)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
             ā””ā”€10-timeout-abort.conf
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2024-04-14 11:01:49 JST; 44s ago
       Docs: man:fprintd(1)
   Main PID: 16105 (fprintd)
      Tasks: 6 (limit: 18777)
     Memory: 13.6M
        CPU: 2.358s
     CGroup: /system.slice/fprintd.service
             ā””ā”€16105 /usr/libexec/fprintd

Apr 14 11:01:48 DESKTOP-6P1365N.lan systemd[1]: Starting fprintd.service - Fingerprint Authentication Daemon...
Apr 14 11:01:48 DESKTOP-6P1365N.lan fprintd[16105]: Creating TOD wrapper for goodix-tod (Goodix Fingerprint Sensor 53xc) driver
Apr 14 11:01:49 DESKTOP-6P1365N.lan systemd[1]: Started fprintd.service - Fingerprint Authentication Daemon.
Apr 14 11:01:55 DESKTOP-6P1365N.lan fprintd[16105]: Goodix Fingerprint Sensor 53xc does not support identify with empty gallery, let's skip it
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Scribeā€™s workaround doesnā€™t seem to work anymore on Fedora 40. My guess is the goodix package used to include fprintd but no longer does, so when uninstalling libfprintd itā€™s gone. goodix-tod does install with it removed, but the daemon and service no longer exists.

It would be nice if it were a downloadable rpm instead; then it could be unpacked, tweaked, repackaged, and installed to get around problems like this.

Edit: my bad, silly mistake - thereā€™s a typo in Scribeā€™s post. Itā€™s libfprint that needs removing, not fprintd. Updated instructions (verified on Fedora 40):

sudo dnf copr enable manciukic/libfprint-tod-goodix

sudo dnf remove libfprint

sudo dnf install libfprint-tod-goodix

sudo systemctl restart fprintd

sudo authselect current

sudo authselect enable-feature with-fingerprint

sudo authselect apply-changes

fprintd-enroll

fprintd-enroll will ask you to authenticate, then quietly sample your right index finger. Keep tapping it and releasing when you seed a ā€˜passedā€™ message. It samples your finger 10 times, and you should tap it in the same position, not try to angle it or maximize coverage (like you would on MacOS).

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I was getting this far, no further.

$ sudo systemctl restart fprintd

Failed to restart fprintd.service: Unit fprintd.service not found.

But solved it by following the instructions here:

XPS 13 9310 - Fedora Workstation 40

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You probably didnā€™t have fprintd installed before. Install it with:

sudo dnf install fprintd