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I have successfully built both libfreenect (driver for Xbox Kinect) and libusb (which is a dependency).

However, if I try to open the Kinect using the freenect_init(...) function, it returns -99.

I tracked down the error to the funtion libusb_init(...) which is returning this error, LIBUSB_ERROR_OTHER.

As I use a minified custom kernel configuration (version: 2.6.37) I think I missed to enable an important config option. Kernel config is available on pastebin.com.

The Kinect gets successfully recognized (reported in dmesg including correct product/vendor information).

Does anyone has an idea how to get rid of this error?

UPDATE: After setting the LIBUSB_DEBUG environment variable to 3 I got the following message: [op_init] could not find usbfs

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Did you try with a "normal" kernel? If it works there, something is wrong with your config, and you need to find out what. – Mat Nov 1 '11 at 8:32
Unfortunately there isnt enough space available to have a much bigger kernel. – SecStone Nov 1 '11 at 8:36
Paste your config to pastebin, otherwise there is little to talk about... – rozcietrzewiacz Nov 1 '11 at 21:04
@rozcietrzewiacz: Thanks, I added the link to the question. – SecStone Nov 2 '11 at 20:56

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libusb requires that the VFS usbfs is mounted. After adding the following line to /etc/fstab the problem was solved:

usbfs   /proc/bus/usb   usbfs   defaults   0   0
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