Goodix 27c6:5117 Fingerprint Working (Huawei MateBook 13 2021)

[gulp]

Got my Goodix fingerprint sensor working on Omarchy! Sharing the solution for others with similar hardware.

Disclaimer: This solution was worked out with Claude Code - AI did the heavy lifting!

Hardware

• Device: Huawei MateBook 13 2021
• Sensor: Goodix 27c6:5117 (80x88 pixels)

Why the built-in setup doesn't work

This sensor needs:

1. Custom libfprint with goodixtls driver
2. SIGFM matching algorithm (NBIS can't handle low-res images)
3. Device ID and firmware patches for 5117

Quick Start

# Clone patched fork
git clone https://github.com/gulp/libfprint-1.git
cd libfprint-1 && git checkout goodix-5117-support

# Install dependencies
sudo pacman -S opencv doctest python-setuptools

# Build (use system Python)
PATH="/usr/bin:$PATH" meson setup build --prefix=/usr -Ddoc=false -Dgtk-examples=false
PATH="/usr/bin:$PATH" ninja -C build
sudo ninja -C build install

# Enroll and test
sudo systemctl restart fprintd
fprintd-enroll && fprintd-verify

Links

• Upstream PR: goodix-fp-linux-dev/libfprint#32
• My fork: gulp/libfprint-1 (goodix-5117-support branch)

[Volzhanka63]

Hi @gulp,

First, thank you so much for the incredible work on the 27c6:5117 Goodix sensor! I’m not a developer myself, but with the help of an AI assistant, I’ve been trying to get it running on my Honor MagicBook Pro (HLYL-WXX9) on Fedora. Your goodix-5117-support branch got us closer than anything else!

We noticed my sensor uses GF_ST411SEC_APP_12118 instead of 12109. To test it, we manually patched goodix511.h to accept the 12118 string and injected my laptop's specific PSK that showed up in the debug logs. It successfully got past the PSK check, but it immediately hit a cryptography wall when I actually touched the sensor:

libfprint-CRITICAL **: server ready failed: cipher operation failed
libfprint-goodixtls5xx-CRITICAL **: failed to scan: Command timed out: 0x20 (code: 24)

My AI assistant suspects this is happening because my 12118 firmware needs a different 200-byte initialization config array (goodix_511_config[]) than the one hardcoded for 12109.

What direction would you recommend I take from here to help get this supported?

Thanks again for all the heavy lifting you've already done!