HOWTO: Get your ESI MAYA 44 to work

[madforthenet]

Hi guys I' Guido from Italy.
I have uninstalled a card similar from an old pc of a friend the model is the same MAYA M44-MKII but the manufacter is Audiotrack with pci connection.
Can you tell me if the two models is the same or similar ?
If yes can I use the same tips to install it on Ubuntu Studio 8.0.4.2 LTS with 2.6.24-23 RT Kernel ?
Thanks in advance for your answer and please be patience for my language.
BYE

[madforthenet]

Hello I have another question:this tutorial is valid also for the latest alsa driver 1.0.19 or not ?
I have read on web that Audiotrack is a division of ESI then two cards are the same ?!. At the moment AudioTrack has discontinued MAya 44 MKII PCI ,ESI this model is also available.
Bye

[madforthenet]

I begin to make driver for my Audiotrak MAYA44MKII, but this is difficult for me. I found some info about this card:

It based on Envy24HT-S main chip, same as ESI MAYA44, but codec chips wm8731 used instead wm8776 on ESI MAYA44.

His pci subdevice id is 0x30315441.

Driver developers, help!

Hi, refer to this post I have the same card.
I have just installed driver with tips in this tutorial , but seems to be not installed.
If I take a look into Ubuntu device manager card exist, but if I open a console and execute

guido@ENTERPRISE:~$ asoundconf list
Names of available sound cards:
Intel

guido@ENTERPRISE:~$ lspci
04:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. VT1720/24 [Envy24PT/HT] PCI Multi-Channel Audio Controller (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Unknown device 3130:4154
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 17
        I/O ports at ec00 [size=32]
        I/O ports at e880 [size=128]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

guido@ENTERPRISE:~$ sudo lspci -d 1412:1724 -nvx 
[sudo] password for guido: 
04:01.0 0401: 1412:1724 (rev 01)
	Subsystem: 3130:4154
	Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 17
	I/O ports at ec00 [size=32]
	I/O ports at e880 [size=128]
	Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 1
00: 12 14 24 17 01 00 10 02 01 00 01 04 00 40 00 00
10: 01 ec 00 00 81 e8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 30 31 54 41
30: 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 01 00 00

the only device in list is Intel, that is on-board audio card of my mobo Intel P5K-SEand system seems rcognized the card, but it doesn't work and I don't found any control panel for device
I try to repeat all step by step more times, but I haven't any positive result. I'm not able to find the panel where is possible adjust input and output of my Audiotrack maya44-MKII so I think:

-Do I make some errors ?t I don't know how to find it

- the esi and audiotrack maya44-mkII probably are not the same card how serg78 wrote on post I quote
Can someone who can help me to found my errors if exist and solve this problem ?
Thanks
Guido

[floydbarber]

Hi Guido, I also have tried some times ago with no results.
Audiotrak's Maya44 is not supported for now (this is my final opinion). I hope serg78 is able to help us, so, by the way, good luck serg!



P.s.: I am italian too. Please contact me if you find something interesting...

[madforthenet]

Hi floydbarber
I'm happy to encounter you here "outside Italy"
I hope too that someone help us to solve this or better that new alsa driver version support these cards officially!!
have Audiotrack Mayy44MKII is it the same of ESI ?
Audiotrack is a division of ESI , but how can we sure ?
See later
bye

[alexdsp]

Hi guys! My name is Alex, i`m from Russia. Excuse for my english.

Does anybody make capture audio from all 4 channels? Is it possible really?
Recently, i have installed Esi Maya44 patch against alsa 1.0.19 drivers, and almost everything works, but capture from channels pair hw:1,1

[ezio_rec]

Hi guys, I'm Ezio, from Italy...

Ubuntu studio jaunty 9-04 on my pc...

musicante@lo-ez:~$ uname -r
2.6.28-3-rt

Alsa version : 1.0.18rc3

Patch for esi maya 44 pci works fine. Thanks a lot guys....

If you have usb devices i.e. midi keyboards or controllers, in order to preserve the snd-(usb) modules (snd-usb-audio, snd-usb-lib, snd, snd-pcm, ......)

$./configure --with-cards=ice1724,usb-audio --with-sequencer=yes

I don't know how to preserve the "midi through" virtual ports but I don't need them now...
Byes,
Ezio.

[Patryk Krawczyk]

Hi everybody. There's hope.

This is message from alsa-devel mailing list:

Since there is no progress regarding this, I hacked and almost
completely rewrote the code to support Maya44.

Dany, could you test alsa-driver-unstable snapshot tarball?
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kerne...napshot.tar.gz

Note that this is generated from sound-unstable GIT tree which
contains the patches in topic/maya44 branch:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-unstable-2.6.git


If the driver is confirmed to work, I'm going to merge the patches to
the upstream.


Thanks,

Takashi

link.

Alsa-devel -- Alsa-devel mailing list


If you can, please write a feedback on alsa-devel, maybe this is the end of our problems.

[Tobisc]

Alleluia! Alsa driver 1.0.21 Support Maya 44!!!!

Thanks Alsa developers and all that help with this.-

http://www.alsa-project.org/main/ind...ICE1724_driver

[Adaon]

Thank Gods