[LAU] How well do thinkpad notebooks work for audio?

[andy baxter]

Malte Steiner wrote:
> I recently setup a Lenovo based video editing laptop (Lenovo is one of 
> the few manufacturers still with some notebooks including firewire port 
> and non glossy screen) for a friend and wonder what to do with the 
> fingerprint reader, isnt that a sort of scanner? Maybe like the early 
> consumer ones, like a big mouse you have to draw over a picture on your 
> own, anyone remember that times?
> Can you do something fancy, maybe controller stuff with the finderprint 
> reader, what data provides the driver?
>   
I had the idea you could use the fingerprint reader as a vertical scroll 
wheel. But it turns out the api is too shallow for that - all the raw 
data processing is done in firmware. The api just lets you scan a 
fingerprint and return a hash type value which can be compared later on 
to other scans.

andy