[petepete]

I don't know which model of fingerprint reader is in the 6th gen, but on the 7th gen, enabling the beta firmware made it work perfectly.

  $ fwupdmgr enable-remote lvfs-testing

If you temporarily enable, apply the Prometheus fingerprint updates then disable you won't need to worry about installing unstable firmware that will affect the system more widely.

[eterps]

> I don't know which model of fingerprint reader is in the 6th gen, but on the 7th gen, enabling the beta firmware made it work perfectly.

The USB id of the fingerprint reader on X1C6 is 06cb:009a while on X1C7 it is 06cb:00bd.

This is the list of supported devices: https://fprint.freedesktop.org/supported-devices.html

As you can see the one for X1C7 is supported, X1C6 unfortunately isn't.

This is their gitlab issue for it: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libfprint/libfprint/issues/13...

[yrro]

I'm getting the following after doing that:

    Firmware metadata has not been updated for 30 days and may not be up to date.

    Update now? (Requires internet connection) [y|N]: y
    Fetching metadata https://cdn.fwupd.org/downloads/firmware-testing.xml.gz
    Downloading…             [***************************************] Less than one minute remaining…
    Fetching signature https://cdn.fwupd.org/downloads/firmware-testing.xml.gz.asc

    Failed to update metadata for lvfs-testing: '48A6D80E4538BAC2' is not a valid signature

Anyone else seen that?

[jabl]

fwupdmgr / LVFS is such a breath of fresh air compared to the various old vendor specific fw update procedures!

[petepete]

The novelty of updating firmware via a GUI on Linux still hasn't worn off.