Install Goodix fingerprint drivers on Fedora.

goodix_fedora.txt

Tested and working with 27c6_530c on Fedora 35

# Install default fprintd and pam
sudo dnf install fprintd fprintd-pam

# Build libfprint-tod
# a. Install build dependencies
sudo dnf install -y gcc gcc-c++ glib glib-devel glibc glibc-devel glib2 glib2-devel libusb libusb-devel nss-devel pixman pixman-devel libX11 libX11-devel libXv libXv-devel gtk-doc libgusb libgusb-devel gobject-introspection gobject-introspection-devel ninja-build git libgudev-devel cairo-devel
# b. clone and build
mkdir fingerprint && cd fingerprint
git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/3v1n0/libfprint.git
git checkout tags/v1.94.1+tod1
# use whatever is latest. check the AUR version info
meson builddir && cdbuilddir
meson compile
meson install

# Overwrite the system libfprint with our version
cp libfprint/libfprint-2.so.2.0.0 /usr/lib64/
cp libfprint/tod/libfprint-2-tod.so /usr/lib64/
cp libfprint/tod/libfprint-2-tod.so.1 /usr/lib64/

# Get the Goodix libfprint driver/udev rules
cd ~/fingerprint
wget http://dell.archive.canonical.com/updates/pool/public/libf/libfprint-2-tod1-goodix/libfprint-2-tod1-goodix_0.0.4-0ubuntu1somerville1.tar.gz
tar -xvf libfprint-2-tod1-goodix_0.0.4-0ubuntu1somerville1.tar.gz


# Move the libfprint driver to where we think it should go
sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/libfprint-2/tod-1/
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/lib64/libfprint-2/tod-1/
sudo cp libfprint-2-tod1-goodix/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfprint-2/tod-1/libfprint-tod-goodix-53xc-0.0.4.so /usr/lib/libfprint-2/tod-1/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libfprint-2/tod-1/libfprint-tod-goodix-53xc-0.0.4.so /usr/local/lib64/libfprint-2/tod-1/libfprint-tod-goodix-53xc-0.0.4.so
sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/libfprint-2/tod-1/libfprint-tod-goodix-53xc-0.0.4.so
sudo cp libfprint-2-tod1-goodix/lib/udev/rules.d/60-libfprint-2-tod1-goodix.rules /lib/udev/rules.d/
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/fprint/goodix

# Add some things into the module alias file
su -
cat libfprint-2-tod1-goodix/debian/modaliases >> /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.alias
exit

# Enable fingerprint reader for security
sudo authselect enable-feature with-fingerprint
sudo authselect apply-changes
sudo systemctl enable fprintd
sudo systemctl start fprintd



# Based on this archived post on a blog somewhere
# https://web.archive.org/web/20220309095606/https://aboutcher.co.uk/2020/10/goodix-fingerprint-reader-on-fedora-linux/

Hi,

How can it be used in a non LDAP environment? After line 44 it warns
"Make sure that SSSD service is configured and enabled."

But SSSD service won't run until a domain is enabled:
SSSD couldn't load the configuration database [1432158246]: No domain is enabled

Which is no suprise in a home environment.

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

Hi,

How can it be used in a non LDAP environment? After line 44 it warns "Make sure that SSSD service is configured and enabled."

But SSSD service won't run until a domain is enabled: SSSD couldn't load the configuration database [1432158246]: No domain is enabled

Which is no suprise in a home environment.

No idea. I got it to work for a while, but then updates broke it and I gave up on trying to get it to work again. Hasn't been an issue since I moved back to Arch.

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

If the driver in the Ubuntu repo supports that particular scanner, the same process may also work. Otherwise, there's nothing I can really do, as it's a closed source binary.

I have also this model can you please add support for it
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 27c6:55a2 Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co.,Ltd.
Thanks in advance.