[ltp] UPEK driver expiring in about a month?

[Alejandro Bonilla Beeche]

Jiang Qian wrote:

>Hi There:
>Do anyone notice that both betas of the UPEK driver is expiring in 
>about a month in the new year? They really mean it! I set my computer 
>date to next year and get a message "the driver has expired" when using 
>fingerprint reader! This is a grave threat to my computer lifestyle:) 
>Is there any workaround other than setting the date back a year when 
>new year come and wait for new driver?
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Why would they do such stupid thing? I swear I will rip off the 
fingerprint reader if they charge for this driver.

I hope they just do it so one doesn't keep an *old* driver. And still, 
they are not doing things the Linux way.

.Alejandro

>Also anyone has the problem of beta 2 version of driver segmentation 
>fault when using under GUI? If I go into NonGUI_Sample and run ./Sample 
>it segmentation fault without letting me enrolling. It works fine under 
>console, both to enroll and to log in.  And beta 1 version of driver 
>works both for console and GUI.  This is a ubuntu hoary box with bioapi 
>1.2.2 compiled from source with --with-Qt-dir=no flag(couldn't get it 
>to compile with qt).  The hardware is thinkpad T43.
>
>Thanks in advance for answering. I'm not in linux-biometric list so 
>please cc me personally, too, at qian2@fas.harvard.edu when you reply to 
>the list! Thanks again!
>
>Jiang
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