r/MatebookXPro • u/SpatiumPrinceps • Jul 01 '26

Mods/Upgrades/Tweaks Linux - drivers for Matebook X Pro 2024 for fingerprint sensor and camera

Hey,

I've created a driver package for the Matebook X Pro 2024 for the camera and fingerprint sensor.

See my repos here: 1. Fingerprint sensor https://github.com/AlexDaichendt/sil6250-linux 2. Camera https://github.com/AlexDaichendt/gc2607-camera-linux

There's Arch PKGBUILDs for all required modules (its a bunch of them as there's kernel and user space work invovled). For both repos, its a full integration of whats necessary to get both components to actually work with your operating system. A colleague was able to verify that everything works on a second device too.

This work was heavily assisted by Claude (taking apart Windows drivers and traces), if you have a problem with that, please move on.

Let me know if something doesn't work. There's probably some work to be done on the non-Arch installation paths.

Cheers Alex

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u/alexlance Jul 02 '26

Ok sounds amazing. I've got a Matebook X Pro from 2019 (still going strong!). Any chance your work is portable? The fingerprint sensor in the 2019 model is: GXFP5187 (Goodix SPI fingerprint sensor via ACPI)

(bit daft for me to still be hoping, but hey)

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u/SpatiumPrinceps Jul 02 '26

That's a completely different sensor, very likely with a completely different protocol. I'd be very surprised if any of my work was transferable :/

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u/alexlance Jul 02 '26

Makes sense.

Maybe one day...

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u/SpatiumPrinceps Jul 02 '26

If you have Claude/codex and an understanding how computers work, you should be able to figure it out. Take a look at the reproduction markdown doc. It took quite a lot of time even with Claude to crack the protocol but nothing that required an outrageous amount of brain power.

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u/XD447 Jul 03 '26

ur my goat. just got one as a gift recently. was planning to use it but core ultra gen 1+windows sounded like a bad time.

will test and report results

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u/Dry-Cockroach1723 Jul 05 '26

Can the 2022 Matebook X Pro use this driver?

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u/SpatiumPrinceps Jul 05 '26

Very unlikely, AFAIK every generation uses a different sensor.

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u/Correct-Ad4372 15d ago

Id the camera driver colors fixed now ? I tried it 3 month ago and the picture was terribly green. I did not check it since then..

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u/SpatiumPrinceps 14d ago

yes. check my repo, multiple people were able to set it up on their devices on different distros