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For those who have computers or laptops with Synaptics \/ Validity fingerprint sensors, there’s a new pull request contains the driver for As you might know, libfprint has a list of unsupported devices<\/a>. It includes many Lenovo Thinkpad and HP laptops with <\/p>\n For these fingerprint sensors, there’s an open-source python-validity<\/a> project making them work in Linux. And, I’ve written a step by step tutorial<\/a> telling how to install and use the driver in Ubuntu.<\/p>\n It’s however NOT beginner friendly, and lacks native integration as it requires to remove the default With the new pull request<\/a>, these fingerprint sensors will work natively in most Linux distributions through libfprint.<\/p>\n And, so far it supports following devices:<\/p>\n NOTE:<\/b> If your laptop model is not listed above, try running The pull request is NOT merged at the moment of writing! If you can’t wait, then you need to manually build it.<\/p>\n For Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, someone has rebuilt According to the PPA description, it targets 1.<\/b> First, press Ctrl+Alt+T to launch terminal. Then run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\nlibfprint<\/code>, the default fingerprint library in most Linux Distributions.<\/p>\n138a<\/code> and 06cb<\/code> sensors.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/06cb-fingerprint-700x537.webp\")
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138a:0090<\/code> used in ThinkPad T460s, T460p, X1 Carbon Gen 4, Yoga 260, P50.<\/li>\n138a:0097<\/code> used in ThinkPad T470, T470s.<\/li>\n06cb:009a<\/code> used in ThinkPad T480\/T480s, X1 Carbon 6th gen, X1 Yoga 3rd gen, X280, P52, L390<\/li>\n138a:009d<\/code> used in ThinkPad X380 Yoga.<\/li>\n138a:00ab<\/code> used in HP ZBook Studio G5, HP EliteBook 840\/850 G5.<\/li>\n06cb:00cb<\/code> used in HP Pavilion 14.<\/li>\n06cb:00b7<\/code> used in HP EliteBook 840 G6, HP EliteBook x360 1040 G6, HP Elite x2 G4.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nlsusb<\/code> command to check the ID (see screenshot above).<\/p>\nInstall it for Ubuntu 26.04<\/h3>\n
libfprint<\/code> with that PR in patch into this PPA<\/a> for AMD\/Intel platform.<\/p>\n06cb:009a<\/code> sensors<\/b> and works very well in my case in ThinkPad T480s, while other sensors need to manually download the firmware.<\/p>\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:m-jedrasik\/libfprint-validity<\/pre>\n
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