Please merge changes to support ESI Maya44 PCI

I have written to ESI and asked if they were going to write MAYA44 driver for Linux. There is a reply:

"Dear Piotr

ESI do not provide and have no plans for Linux drivers for our products

However

ESI are happy to provide /share information to an Individual developer within the Linux community

That is able and capable to develope drivers

and wishes to develope drivers

 Regards

UK Support

ESI Auditechnik "

I'm not a programmer and even don't know what kind of informations are important to write a driver. Anyone could help?

I can confirm the bug (Ubuntu 7.10). I think it should be possible to run that card with ice1724 driver. But... how?

(Please do not assign bugs to me.)

There is no ALSA driver for ESI MAYA44 PCI. Programmer needed!

I need this drivers too, someone can help ??

The driver is under development (beta version) and will be included in the next ALSA release!

This is a patch against alsa-driver-1.0.17, which adds support for ESI MAYA 44.
http://rapidshare.com/files/130629976/maya44patch-alsa-driver-1.0.17.diff.tar.gz

This 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-driver.
If you want see this patch merge, in the next release of alsa-driver, please write a message
on alsa-driver mailing list: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Mailing-lists

1. Extract patch to directory where you previously extracted alsa-driver-1.0.17 source code
   (ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.17.tar.bz2)
2. You can apply patch by typing "patch -p0 < maya44patch-alsa-driver-1.0.17.diff"
   in the same directory where you have alsa-driver-1.0.17 and MAYA44patch...
3. If everything goes well, you can build new driver by typing

 a) sudo apt-get install build-essential
 b) ./configure --with-cards=ice1724 --with-sequencer=yes ; make
 c) now you should delete old alsa driver "sudo rm -r /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ubuntu/sound/*"
 d) sudo make install
 e) restart your system and enjoy your new ESI MAYA 44 sound under Linux.

(this was tested with UBUNTU 8.04)

Forgive me my poor english

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:57:30PM BST, Patryk Krawczyk wrote:
> This 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-driver.
> If you want see this patch merge, in the next release of alsa-driver, please write a message
> on alsa-driver mailing list: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Mailing-lists

Has this patch been posted to the alsa-devel mailing list, or as a bug report? If not, I strongly suggest either you, or the original author do so.

In any case, I will see about getting this patch into at least the Ubuntu Intrepid release, and possibly hardy as well, although that is a little doubtful.

Luke

Yes, this patch has been posted to the alsa-devel.
This is the latest news, in this case from alsa-devel:

"> Hi,
>
> Is there anybody who could integrate the MAYA44 driver with ALSA? Rainer
> does not respond and I don't know what's going on. Maya44 driver should
be
> integrated as soon as possible because of the improvements in the
ice-1724
> code. Anybody interested?

Such a big patch cannot be merged to the upstream without a proper
sign-off. I mailed Rainer again but no response yet, unfortunately.

Takashi
"

Look at this thread: http://www.spinics.net/lists/alsa-devel/msg14143.html

It would be grat to make Ubuntu the only distro that would support ESI Maya44 sound card out-of the box. I think that somebody should work on that patch regularly so it would be compatible with incoming Alsa versions.

Of course, the best is to include it with the official Alsa. But as far as I know without the Rainer sign-off it's impossible. Maybe somebody else could sign it off?

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