- First of all update your system
pacman -Syu
- Install xorg
pacman -S xorg-server
- If you have a nvidia graphics card then you need to install these
pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils
If you have a ati card then you need to install these
pacman -S catalyst catalyst-utils
- Create your system admin user
useradd -m -G users,audio,lp,optical,storage,video,wheel,power -s /bin/bash YOUR-USER-NAME-HERE
Now we need to set a password for that user so type the following
passwd YOUR-USER-NAME-HERE
- Install some packages
pacman -S hal mesa openssh gnome gdm firefox gnome-terminal gedit file-roller gconf-editor gcalctool evince nautilus-cd-burner gnome-volume-manager gnome-power-manager ttf-ms-fonts ttf-dejavu ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-liberation flashplugin jre archlinux-themes-gdm numlockx alsa-utils codecs gstreamer0.10 gstreamer0.10-python gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-good gstreamer0.10-bad gstreamer0.10-ugly gstreamer0.10-good-plugins gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins gstreamer0.10-base gstreamer0.10-base-plugins gstreamer0.10-pitfdll skype rdesktop pidgin purple-plugin-pack pidgin-encryption pidgin-libnotify aspell-en nmap wireshark irssi filezilla openoffice-base gnome-themes-extras gtk2-themes-collection tango-icon-theme tango-icon-theme-extras archlinux-themes-gdm hwd sudo
- Generate a Xorg Config
hwd -xa
If you have a nvidia graphics card do this aswell
nvidia-xconfig
- Configuring audio run the following and set your volume levels
alsamixer
you can test you sound using
aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
and then when your happy with it run
alsactl store
and finally add alsa to your daemons line of rc.conf
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !network netfs crond fam hal networkmanager alsa)
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