Hi, just installed arch yesterday, must say I am very impressed so far. Coming from distros ranging from Mandrake to RedHat to Debian and Slack, arch may very well be what I have been looking for.

One question though, since it seems to be a pretty bare install of X, the fonts are pretty ugly to look at (at least in comparison with RH post-8 stuff). How can I spiff them up, maybe by putting in the MS fonts I saw in unofficial?

Another question, does anybody know if the emu10k1 driver in the kernel that comes with arch 0.5 supports the audigy? Or should I compile the kernel without that driver support, and install the one from sourceforge instead? (I cant get sound to work, even though I did add the lines in /etc/devfsd.conf.

Any help is appreciated, I'm looking forward to getting into this distro.

Try installing the ttf-bitstream-vera and ttf-ms-fonts packages from unofficial. That should make a huge difference.

As far as the sound card, have you tried loading the module for it, and it doesn't work? Try #modprobe emu10k1 (you must be root). If that works you can add emu10k1 to the MODULES array in /etc/rc.conf which will cause the module to load on boot-up.

I have an audigy and I had trouble with the regular emu10k1 drivers with it, even after a recompile.

I recompiled ALSA and used that. I use these modules:

snd-emu10k1
snd-pcm-oss

The first is the ALSA module for emu10k1, and pcm-oss, makes it OSS compatable, so it works with all applications.



And for the fonts, those bitstream fonts are damn pretty.

alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1

put that it your /etc/modules.conf file

check the bottom of this page for further font optimizing.
http://www.jsutnoni.com/easylinuxgui...t=258&start=60