HOWTO: Get your ESI MAYA 44 to work

[Patryk Krawczyk]

In This tutorial, I will describe how to install ESI MAYA 44 PCI under UBUNTU 8.04

ESI MAYA 44 driver was made by Rainer Zimmerman, thanks to initiative of Piotr Zaryk. I just made update, against new alsa-driver source code. Unfortunately, nobody knows if this patch whenever become official part of alsa, because Rainer didn't sign-off his driver and contact with him was lost. If you want see this patch merge, in the next release of alsa-driver, please write a message on alsa-driver mailing list.

Turn on terminal and type the following code:

cd; mkdir maya44; cd maya44
wget http://prl-quakewars.ovh.org/maya44patch-alsa-driver-1.0.17.diff.tar.gz
wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.17.tar.bz2

Extract patch and alsa-driver-1.0.17:

tar -xjf alsa-driver-1.0.17.tar.bz2
tar -xvzf maya44patch-alsa-driver-1.0.17.diff.tar.gz

Apply patch by typing:

patch -p0 < maya44patch-alsa-driver-1.0.17.diff

Download dependencies:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Configure and make alsa-driver:

cd alsa-driver-1.0.17
./configure --with-cards=ice1724 --with-sequencer=yes ; make

If everything goes well, you can install new driver by typing:

sudo make install

Restart your system and enjoy your ESI MAYA 44 sound card under Linux.

Forgive me my poor english

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Here's a patch for UBUNTU 8.10 beta against alsa-driver-1.0.18rc3:

esi_maya44-alsa-1.0.18rc3.diff.tar.gz

In attachment, I add patch against current version of ALSA.

[sonnet]

Thank you very much!
I followed your card and it worked perfectly!
Thanks again I was waiting for more than one year.

[Tobisc]

Hello!
I have the maya 44 card in my pc with Ubuntu Studio 8.4 64bit.
I follow the tutorial but in the "Configure and make alsa-driver:" step, the kernell directory was wrong...
Reading the INSTALL file of the alsa package, I find out the "Kernel Source Tree" option but i dont' now how carry on.
Can you, Patryk or anyone help me?

PD: My knowledge in Linux & programming is cero! Je... But i really I want to use my mayya 44 in ubuntu.


Sorry for my terrible inglish and thanks!

[Crafty Kisses]

Awesome this really helped my friend out.

[Patryk Krawczyk]

Hello!
I have the maya 44 card in my pc with Ubuntu Studio 8.4 64bit.
I follow the tutorial but in the "Configure and make alsa-driver:" step, the kernell directory was wrong...

Are you sure that you have kernel-headers installed?

Try this:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`

[Tobisc]

Thank you very much!!! It works!
Now i go to play a wile whith my maya in linux!

Thanks again!

[Tobisc]

Someone have an idea of how i do to jack set the 4 inputs of the maya44? Only two are set as "capture_1" & "capture_2" but from the alsa mixer can hear fours.
When i try to configure four "inputs channels" in "setup", jack dont' start...
Apparently wh:0 are the two first inputs and hw:01 the others two (input device in jack setup) but two divaces at time is no possible.


Thanks for help!!!

[Tobisc]

Ha... Jack dont' see the midi usb controller...
some idea?

Thanks!

[Patryk Krawczyk]

I'm afraid that I can't help you with this. I think that the best what you can do is write a message on alsa-driver mailing list. Maybe there is somebody who can help you solve this problem(I'm afraid that driver doesn't support those function yet)

http://www.alsa-project.org/main/ind.../Mailing-lists

[Tobisc]

Thanks anyway for your help Patryk!
You are talking about the "inputs" problem or the "midi controller" problem?

cheers!