My Arch Install

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I've messed around with lots of Linux distros until recently. My 4870 doesn't play nice with default drivers and my laptop was having problems too.

So my Linux background is pretty good, but this will be my first time doing it from scratch. I figure if I have to mess around with it all the time to get it to work, might as well get it to work the way I want.

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Oh, that sounds like fun. We'll see how it goes.

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Yeah, I just need it to work. Most liveCDs just go to blank screen. PCLinuxOS and Mepis were the only two that worked.

I enjoyed arch. One of the more advanced distros out there, but worth the time. Its no LFS or Gentoo, but you will learn more working with a distro like Arch, then working with the "Plug in the disk and play" type.

Have fun, and good luck. I would like to run it again soon

Okay, so far everything has gone rather well. I do have some problems that I don't know how to solve. I am using KDEmod. Here they are:

1. Speakers hiss when I startx and the desktop appears or when I logout of KDE. It isn't a hiss like static but more like a high pitched slightly staticy tone. Happens when the notifications pop up in the bottom right. Disabled PC speaker

2. Automatic login isn't working right. I did what it say here (method 4) but it didn't change anything. I'll try the other methods tomorrow. Used this guide, method 1

3. Firefox looks horrid. Even when I apply a theme, it looks like I have turned off all visual niceness. The borders are nice and even the buttons from an Oxygen skin look nice, but the menus and area surrounding the buttons look very basic. Same with all right click menus in the DE.

4. Installed wicd for network and wired works fine (I used wired to install so it has been working since the beginning. Wireless, however, is not working. It shows up in ifconfig but in wicd there are no wireless networks found. Installed madwifi drivers, works great now

5. Clock is in military time. How do I get it into 12 hr with am and pm? Had to set my default Region and it adjusted everything for me.

6. Plugging in my usb drive. It is recognized but I can't access it. It is just called Volume (vfat) and that is all I can see. When I try to access it, it tells me Permission denied. Found this guide

So other than these problems, the desktop environment works well. It recognizes my battery and the ATI drivers installed nicely. I'll try and tackle these setbacks tomorrow.

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You probably have many window styles to choose from your KDE prefs. I don't use KDE or GNOME so I can't really help you specifically but just look for your desktop prefs and choose a window style you like. There are probably dozens. If that isn't enough then get a theme from mozilla addons.

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Start looking over your KDE prefs. It has to be in there some where

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How are you trying to access it? You may have to chmod the mount point to allow you to mount or access it as a user unless you are doing everything as root (don't do that)

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I followed that guide and it is a no go. It didn't help as I still get the error I did before:

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I thought it may have just been my drive but it won't work with any flash drive.

EDIT: Found this guide, following it now. **FIXED**

So far this is the last thing remaining in my first list of problems:

Here you can see the firefox problem:


You can tell the buttons are skinned, but it just looks so blocky.

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I already said how to fix this.

As far as hibernate, it often doesn't work. You have to have an ACPI supported by Linux and sometimes your distro as well.