Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-11 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 11/10/2010 10:14 PM, Markus Rechberger wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar boulab...@gmail.com wrote: The bounty is already taken by that developer. But now, the Kinect thing is supported like a GPL userspace library. Maybe still need more work to be

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-11 Thread Markus Rechberger
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Hans de Goede hdego...@redhat.com wrote: Hi, On 11/10/2010 10:14 PM, Markus Rechberger wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar boulab...@gmail.com  wrote: The bounty is already taken by that developer. But now, the Kinect thing is

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-11 Thread Markus Rechberger
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar boulab...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Markus Rechberger mrechber...@gmail.com wrote: I've seen alot projects failing due not having enough users If it should mainly remain a hacker only project then a kernel module

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar
MS Kinect interfacing via libusb released http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhW-cvpkks http://git.marcansoft.com/?p=libfreenect.git i -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Antonio Ospite
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:20:40 +0100 Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar boulab...@gmail.com wrote: MS Kinect interfacing via libusb released http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhW-cvpkks http://git.marcansoft.com/?p=libfreenect.git Good, if anyone is willing to provide the hardware I think I can help

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Steven Toth
On 11/10/10 10:54 AM, Antonio Ospite wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:20:40 +0100 Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar boulab...@gmail.com wrote: MS Kinect interfacing via libusb released http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhW-cvpkks http://git.marcansoft.com/?p=libfreenect.git Good, if anyone is willing

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar
Thanks for your interest. The developers are connected to #openkinect channel on Freenode. The one who shipped this code is marcan on that channel. i -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Andy Walls
IFixit has a tear down mentioning all the chips and a reference design http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft-Kinect-Teardown/4066/1 There's two camera sensors, an ir illuminator, four microphones, a motor, and apparently a built in usb hub. It supposedly consumes more power than a standard

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar
The bounty is already taken by that developer. But now, the Kinect thing is supported like a GPL userspace library. Maybe still need more work to be rewritten as a kernel module. The device has also a microphone (still need to be hacked), an accelerometer and even a motor/engine. The design

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Antonio Ospite
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:11:59 -0500 Steven Toth st...@kernellabs.com wrote: On 11/10/10 10:54 AM, Antonio Ospite wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:20:40 +0100 Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar boulab...@gmail.com wrote: [...] http://git.marcansoft.com/?p=libfreenect.git Good, if anyone is willing

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Antonio Ospite
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:54:58 +0100 Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar boulab...@gmail.com wrote: The bounty is already taken by that developer. Which surely deserves it :) But now, the Kinect thing is supported like a GPL userspace library. Maybe still need more work to be rewritten as a kernel

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Markus Rechberger
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar boulab...@gmail.com wrote: The bounty is already taken by that developer. But now, the Kinect thing is supported like a GPL userspace library. Maybe still need more work to be rewritten as a kernel module. This should better remain in

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Antonio Ospite
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:14:36 +0100 Markus Rechberger mrechber...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar boulab...@gmail.com wrote: The bounty is already taken by that developer. But now, the Kinect thing is supported like a GPL userspace library. Maybe

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Markus Rechberger
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Antonio Ospite osp...@studenti.unina.it wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:14:36 +0100 Markus Rechberger mrechber...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar boulab...@gmail.com wrote: The bounty is already taken by that

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Antonio Ospite osp...@studenti.unina.it wrote: If there are arguments against a kernel driver I can't see them yet. +1 This device is a webcam+(other things), it should be handled similar to other webcams already supported inside the kernel. If we make an

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Antonio Ospite
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:13:09 +0100 Markus Rechberger mrechber...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar boulab...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Antonio Ospite osp...@studenti.unina.it wrote: If there are arguments against a kernel

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Markus Rechberger
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Antonio Ospite osp...@studenti.unina.it wrote: On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:13:09 +0100 Markus Rechberger mrechber...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar boulab...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Antonio

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Markus Rechberger mrechber...@gmail.com wrote: I've seen alot projects failing due not having enough users If it should mainly remain a hacker only project then a kernel module should be fine. sorry ? aside of that you can just debug userspace drivers with

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread hermann pitton
Am Donnerstag, den 11.11.2010, 00:36 +0100 schrieb Markus Rechberger: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Antonio Ospite osp...@studenti.unina.it wrote: On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:13:09 +0100 Markus Rechberger mrechber...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Mohamed Ikbel