[SOLVED] Fingerprint reader not working in KDE 5.24 beta

Hi all. Wondering if anyone else has tried the beta version of KDE 5.24 and run into this issue. Whenever I go into System Settings to set up a fingerprint, it lets me go through all of the steps to enroll a fingerprint, but on the very last scan of my fingerprint, it always ends up erroring out and saying “The device was disconnected”.

I’m running Garuda Linux.

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Have you enrolled fingerprints with the reader on another OS before? The reader saves them locally, so you might have to delete the old ones first. There is a python script for that, I’ll update my reply when I found it.

UPDATE: script can be found here: https://github.com/lightrush/framework-laptop-formula/blob/main/framework-laptop/files/fingerprint-reader/libfprint_delete_device_prints.py
or here: Fingerprints not getting deleted from device? (#415) · Issues · libfprint / libfprint · GitLab

That worked! Thank you!

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No problem, I updated the title, hope that’s okay