[fprint] aes1610 in current version

[miguel@jmroque.net]

Whet were the changes made so that AES1610 could be recognized? Asking  
this as my laptop has a AES1610 and if the lib is not loaded, then  
it's no use for me.

Thanks,
Miguel

Quoting Daniel Drake <dan at reactivated.net>:

> Michele B. wrote:
>> Hello to all,
>>
>> First of all thanks for your efforts in developing all this!
>> I just wanted to ask you if you didnt interface the aes1610 driver on
>> purpose in this release of libfprint or not.
>> I use a Samsung X65 notebook with the AuthenTec Reader and found out
>> libfprint doesnt recognize it because the driver is not loaded.
>
> Oops, that was an oversight, thanks for pointing it out. I don't have
> this hardware to test with, so it slipped through the gap.
> Apparently we haven't spread the word to enough AES1610 users yet... :)
>
>> I just added the corresponding lines to fp_internal.h and core.c
>> (simply look at the uru4000 drivers and others) that were missing and
>> now it works more or less. Just some strange error about
>>
>> fp:error [fpi_imgdev_capture] no image height assigned
>>
>> but I guess it´s normal.
>
> That's a bug in the current code where the scan was not good enough but
> the driver didn't report that, it instead returns an invalid image. In
> other words, your scanning technique was bad -- you didn't scan for long
> enough or something like that.
>
>> P.S. Can u tell me a best practice to scan my finger? I couldnt manage
>> to make it verify even once for now.
>
> Use fp_demo as it provides visual information on your scan, and get a
> good enrollment image.
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
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