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For making the Asus Xtion work on USB 3.0 on Linux (e.g. for PCL)

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asus-xtion-fix

For making the Asus Xtion work on USB 3.0 on Linux (e.g. for PCL).

The Xtion apparently has a firmware problem that makes it not work on USB 3.0 ports.

You might get dmesg messages like:

[ 3162.597428] usb 3-3: new high-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
[ 3162.617432] usb 3-3: New USB device found, idVendor=1d27, idProduct=0600
[ 3162.617440] usb 3-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
[ 3162.617444] usb 3-3: Product: PrimeSense Device
[ 3162.617447] usb 3-3: Manufacturer: PrimeSense
[ 3162.617912] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: Not enough bandwidth. Proposed: 1663, Max: 1607
[ 3162.617920] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: Not enough bandwidth
[ 3162.617933] usb 3-3: can't set config #1, error -12

Some sources recommended to blacklist the USB 3.0 driver xhci_hcd and use the USB 2.0 driver ehci_hcd only. (On e.g. Ubuntu you have to recompile the kernel for this, setting these drivers to be built as modules instead of built into the kernel, changing CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD and CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD from y to m).

However, this did not work for my computer, and after unloading the USB 3.0 driver, the device was not recognized at all in dmesg.

A firmware update helped, described below.

Note, however, that the newer firmware does not seem to work with OpenNI 1:

  • When using tag Unstable-1.5.4.0 from OpenNI/OpenNI and master (728867) from PointCloudLibrary/Sensor I get: Open failed: Got a timeout while waiting for a network command to complete!

OpenNI 2 works with it, now finally on USB 3.0 on Linux, and its NiViewer can display the camera images.

Note that at the time of writing, PCL only supports OpenNI 1, but there is a pull request for it to use OpenNI 2.

Upgrading the Xtion firmware

You have to flush the firmware from a Windows OS.

Unpack the FW579-RD1081-112v2.zip ZIP file, go into UsbUpdate, and run the file !Update-RD108x!.bat from cmd.exe with Administrator privileges.

Extract the whole ZIP file, the files in the FLA folder are the actual firmware.

You should see an output like in the file firmware-flush-hotfix-log.txt.

Original source

https://my.artec3d.com/kb/upgrading_asus_firmware

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For making the Asus Xtion work on USB 3.0 on Linux (e.g. for PCL)