linux - Kinect for Xbox 360 freezes and disconnects from USB after running Processing SimpleOpenNi depth image example

Question

please help

I've been trying to set up kinect for XBOX 360 to run on ubuntu in order to start developing an application to control a humanoid robot. for the past four days I've been searching , downloading , installing and trying dozens of libraries and drivers to get the kinect to work on Ubuntu. in the beginning none was working and I was only able to read the RGB camera with "Camorama" and "guvcview" no matter what library or driver I attempted to run.. Finally, I installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu and installed libfreenect libraries using synaptic (I'm kinda newbie) and I also installed the following packages

https://code.google.com/p/simple-openni/downloads/detail?name=OpenNI_NITE_Installer-Linux64-0.27.zip&can=4&q=

along with Processing 2.0 and SimpleOpenNi-0.27

I start Processing -> examples -> OpenNi -> DepthImage & RUN and the kinect starts for 3 to 10 seconds giving the image below some times along with the RGB image and some times with out it, then the frame freezes, and when I try listing the USB devices ($lsusb) there is no Kinect camera or audio devices listed, so the Kinect must be unplugged from the Adaptor and USB and then re-inserted and the problem still occur after running the sketch.

Attempted solutions:

1- removing and black listing gspca kernel module

2- disabling USB auto-suspend

but the problem still occur...

I'm using Kinect for XBOX 360 with (12V - 1.08A) USB AC Power Adapter http://www.walmart.com/ip/INSTEN-USB-AC-Power-Adapter-For-Microsoft-Xbox-360-Kinect-Sensor/28882271

My laptop is : DELL Inspiron.1525 Intel Core2Duo RAM 2GB

Running Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS ,, Release: 14.04 ,, Codename: trusty

Can any one help me please!!.

Answer 1

I had a similar problem and after I used Kinect With windows, I found that the problem was from the Kinect itself.