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kinect motor driver cannot be detected

hi i just bought a new xbox kinect and apparently, my VM is unable to detect the kinect motor driver but is able to instead the camera and audio instead. this cause me to be unable to use libfreenect. can anyone help me? i searched and most people are able to detect the motor but unable to detect the camera and audio. mine is the opposite. thanks! also when i run

openni and the command rosrun imageview imageview image:=/camera/rgb/image_color

to display the camera data, i get no data with the screen blank. anyone entcounters this problem too?

edit i am using ros fuerte with ubuntu precise 12.04

Asked by daidalos on 2013-12-28 17:16:43 UTC

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did you ever tested freenect package?

Asked by Mahyar on 2013-12-29 10:27:40 UTC

yes i tested freenect stack with my old kinect and it works apparently. openni does not work on my old kinect too so i dont think its a kinect problem

Asked by daidalos on 2013-12-29 17:32:07 UTC

I'm curious why you're using Fuerte, there might be some deprecated packages that are causing problems. Also what does the lsusb (type in command terminal) output say?

Asked by Athoesen on 2014-01-08 06:47:52 UTC

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