Arch linux questions

craptakular · 21 Oct 2008 at 21:19

Hi,

I tried Arch linux a year ago and the install was fairly successful. I got gnome installed and could log into it. Unfortunately in my haste I skipped a part of the guide, and that was my downfall

I'm currently using trusty old Ubuntu to learn Vim as that was the course of the trouble. Whats wrong with gedit I cry!

Am I right in thinking that I could copy my xorg.conf from ubuntu 8.04 and use that in Arch? I want to iron out issues with my new ATI 4870 and dual screens, this is easy to do with ubuntu installed by wubi.

Thirdly, Will my Asus xonar d2 (the pci card version) work out of the box in Arch like it does in Ubuntu?

craptakular · 21 Oct 2008 at 21:57

omg omg omg just discovered virtualbox, its so easy!

just installed ubuntu inside windows within 5 mins

Virtualbox is gonna tame Arch linux, should have tried virtualbox years ago! What an amazing program.

pingwing · 22 Oct 2008 at 02:04

Hehe its good, though not too helpful for emulating some hardware (eg 3d card and the sound card i think..)

Anyway alsa has some drivers out for the d2 and d2x cards!

(i was pleased when i found out about it too) http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Vendor-Asus just for reference that its there and working

craptakular · 22 Oct 2008 at 07:41

oh excellent. I know my 4870 works inside ubuntu, still need to get dual screens working but can use a wibi install for that. I mean if i bork it I can just uninstall it in windows

god linux has improved over the 3 years I have been "dabbling"

ty 4 the link!