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running Asus Xtion Pro Live under ros electric fails

I did a source based installation of ros electric as described here:

http://www.ros.org/wiki/electric/Installation/Ubuntu/Source

The reason for that is the usage of PCL 1.6. For that I changed the .rosinstall file with the following line:

that compiles fine ros electric and the trunk of PCL (1.6).

Now I need to install the opennikinect package with is now called openniros, right?

I checked out the electric version of the package that I found under:

https://kforge.ros.org/openni/openni_ros/file/54e88dc504ba

with:

hg clone -r 408 https://kforge.ros.org/openni/openni_ros

That compiles fine as well.

But if I want to launch the Xtion Pro Live with:

roslaunch openni_launch openni.launch

the process is dying.

Did I compile wrong versions? Or is there a better way to use ros pcl 1.6 and the Asus Xtion?

Thanks for your help

Asked by Stefan on 2012-04-25 00:02:26 UTC

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How is the process dying? Are there any errors?

Asked by Dan Lazewatsky on 2012-04-25 04:45:39 UTC

I recompiled everything including the perception_pcl_unstable_electric and the above mentioned version of openni_ros (Revision 408) and than it runs. There are some warning and errors while init openni_camera (run roslaunch openni_launch openni.launch) that says the calibration files are not found.

Asked by Stefan on 2012-05-04 03:58:20 UTC

But the output looks correct

Asked by Stefan on 2012-05-04 04:08:05 UTC

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