Thinking out loudly, arch is a lot of fun. Except for my occasional wrestles with systemd and its sort of layer cake it's awesome. If you need your graphics driver modprobed by the time X should launch you can put it into mkinitcpio.conf. And if you put stuff into mkinitcpio.conf, remember to argh build the image. /me swearing like a trooper. For crying out loud, there went an hour of puzzlement. cheers! mar77i