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‎05-31-2023 07:01 AM

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Product: HP ProBook 640 G1 Notebook PC
Operating System: Ubuntu LTS

I have an HP Probook 640 G1 With a Validity VFS495 Fingerprint Sensor:
Here is lsusb in the terminal: Bus 003 Device 003: ID 138a:003f Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS495 Fingerprint Reader
Does anyone know how to get it to work on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with KDE-Plasma Desktop Environment. I installed the drivers here is all the terminal output when installing it:

aaron@aaron-desktop:~/Downloads$ tar -xvf sp84530.tar
SP84530/
SP84530/Validity-Sensor-Setup-4.5-136.0.x86_64.rpm

 

aaron@aaron-desktop:~/Downloads$ cd SP84530/

 

aaron@aaron-desktop:~/Downloads/SP84530$ sudo alien -d Validity-Sensor-Setup-4.5-136.0.x86_64.rpm
warning: Validity-Sensor-Setup-4.5-136.0.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 1c774eaa: NOKEY
warning: Validity-Sensor-Setup-4.5-136.0.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 1c774eaa: NOKEY
warning: Validity-Sensor-Setup-4.5-136.0.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 1c774eaa: NOKEY
warning: Validity-Sensor-Setup-4.5-136.0.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 1c774eaa: NOKEY
warning: Validity-Sensor-Setup-4.5-136.0.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 1c774eaa: NOKEY
warning: Validity-Sensor-Setup-4.5-136.0.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 1c774eaa: NOKEY
warning: Validity-Sensor-Setup-4.5-136.0.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 1c774eaa: NOKEY
warning: Validity-Sensor-Setup-4.5-136.0.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 1c774eaa: NOKEY
warning: Validity-Sensor-Setup-4.5-136.0.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 1c774eaa: NOKEY
warning: Validity-Sensor-Setup-4.5-136.0.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 1c774eaa: NOKEY
warning: Validity-Sensor-Setup-4.5-136.0.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 1c774eaa: NOKEY
warning: Validity-Sensor-Setup-4.5-136.0.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 1c774eaa: NOKEY
warning: Validity-Sensor-Setup-4.5-136.0.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 1c774eaa: NOKEY
warning: Validity-Sensor-Setup-4.5-136.0.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 1c774eaa: NOKEY
warning: Validity-Sensor-Setup-4.5-136.0.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 1c774eaa: NOKEY
warning: Validity-Sensor-Setup-4.5-136.0.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 1c774eaa: NOKEY
Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package SynapticsIncorporated: postinst postrm
Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to include the scripts.
warning: Validity-Sensor-Setup-4.5-136.0.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 1c774eaa: NOKEY
synapticsincorporated_4.5-137_amd64.deb generated

 

aaron@aaron-desktop:~/Downloads/SP84530$ sudo dpkg -i synapticsincorporated_4.5-137_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 306328 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack synapticsincorporated_4.5-137_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking synapticsincorporated (4.5-137) over (4.5-137) ...
Setting up synapticsincorporated (4.5-137) ...

Can anyone help me with this please. The install seemed successful. But I don't know how to set it up to work, Nothing is showing up in settings.

OS System: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS KDE-Plasma Desktop Environment (Kubuntu)

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