Hello,
I wrote a ROS driver [1] for the kinect based on libfreenect [2]. The driver somehow works, but libfreenect is currently far from being finished, for instance I had to fix a memory trash there. Of course, all contributions are welcome to improve this driver :-)
All the best,
Stéphane
[1]
https://github.com/ethz-asl/ros-drivers/tree/master/microsoft_kinect/
[2]
http://git.marcansoft.com/?p=libfreenect.git