HOWTO: Get your ESI MAYA 44 to work

**Tropcon** · July 30th, 2010

Well, you can always open a terminal and type in " lsusb ". This is short for "List USB," and it will give you a list of everything your computer sees plugged into your USB ports. " aplay -l " will also list all of your sound cards. You can also try getting JACK running and see if the inputs/outputs appear in there. Other than that, I don't know that I can help you much more. At this point it may be time to start a new thread and hope that someone else who actually has maya44usb finds you.

PS. I sent you a private message explaining WINE, JACK and ALSA.

I stumbled across another forum that might have the solution. It's here: http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/sh....php?p=8887622
Apparently, you just need to set the Maya 44 usb to be the default sound card so that ALSA will use it instead of the one inside your computer. If it's on-board, you can usually disable it in BIOS, if not you could always see what you can do with this forum: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ubuntu-564006/

Bad memories of trying to use dual sound cards are staring to come back to me... good luck!

**kokoshmusun** · April 12th, 2011

What is the recent situation? I'm about to purchase the ESI Maya44 and I haven't been able to understand clearly whether it works completely (or partially, e.g., phantom power can't be switched on) or not in linux. Does anyone know for sure?

**krzakx** · July 28th, 2011

Originally Posted by kokoshmusun

What is the recent situation? I'm about to purchase the ESI Maya44 and I haven't been able to understand clearly whether it works completely (or partially, e.g., phantom power can't be switched on) or not in linux. Does anyone know for sure?

I have similar questions but I want to get work MAYA 44 USB, this is recongized by ubuntu 9.10 plug and play.
How its works in real ?

**Tropcon** · July 29th, 2011

Krzakx,

So, there are three MAYA44 devices. PCI, PCI-E and USB. The PCI version, apparently, works fine. The PCI-E version... well, I don't know. No one's said anything here yet.
Those two cards are the topic of this thread, and I believe the post you quoted was referring to the PCI-E edition.

The MAYA 44 USB is a different story. It's been plug & play for years (since Intrepid.) Shouldn't have a problem.

**krzakx** · August 14th, 2011

Originally Posted by Tropcon

The MAYA 44 USB is a different story. It's been plug & play for years (since Intrepid.) Shouldn't have a problem.

Ther is problem, check this please http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1787616

**kokoshmusun** · September 6th, 2011

I got the ESI Maya44 PCI and it works under linux. But I haven't been able to take advantage of it fully, as I found it difficult to set up a linux audio distro. Right now, I'm trying xubuntu + KXStudio but there are still problems.

**oldvelvet** · May 13th, 2012

well, thanks to this post, i will finally install ubuntu in my computer!!!!

Many thanks to all of you!

**krzakx** · May 13th, 2012

Originally Posted by oldvelvet

well, thanks to this post, i will finally install ubuntu in my computer!!!!

Many thanks to all of you!

Do you have MAYA PCI or USB?

**realJedi** · April 23rd, 2013

I have the Maya 44 XTe (PCIe) and didn't get it running yet. Still hope for solutions, because I really want to use Ubuntu, otherwise I have to keep using Windows