my most terrible experience since I'm using archlinux happened two days ago. I accidentally wipe out my arch system while trying to install dragonflybsd on the seperate partition. don't know what really happened, whether I was selecting the wrong partition number or the dragonfly installer behaved differently. all that I know, my arch is gone .... with all the stuff that have not been backup for quite a long time :( . so .. in these few days I spent most of my time to setup the new arch system using the latest 0.7 Release (wombat) of course.
as usual, archlinux installation is quite easy and straightforward. with the more matured hwd (hardware detection tool) it's end up with almost a fully configured system. two new things really make a difference in 0.7 release - udev and xorg. although user still can choose to use either udev or devfs, I opt for the new udev. moving to udev is just a matter adding one line to your bootloader configuration file (lilo is my preffered choice).
append="devfs=nomount"
hwd script produced a ready to use xorg.conf file but it is name as xorg.conf.hwd, so it's up to you to use it by renaming as xorg.conf. I only notice this after starting X for the first time and discovered that my wheel mouse does not work in firefox. so looking back to /etc/X11, I found that there is no xorg.conf file, only xorg.conf.hwd. so xorg just starting my X without using and xorg.conf file ... cool !! :). to make my wheel mouse working I just add this line to my xorg.conf file
Option "Buttons" "5"
another glitch was mplayer unable to access audio device as normal user. looking through udev permission, I discovered that audio device is accessible to the member of group audio, so it's just a matter of:-
gpasswd -a kamal audio
which will add user kamal to the audio group. to create a symlink for my cdrom/cdrw/dvd device, there's already file named cdsymlinks.conf in /etc/udev. all I have to do just uncomment the line:-
OUTPUT="CD CDRW DVD DVDRW DVDRAM"
and restart udev through
/etc/./start_udev
and the new device node will be populated.
all in all, setting a new system with archlinux 0.7 is painless.
