I did this on an amd64 athelon k8 machine with nvidia sound card video output and ethernet card. Once installation of archlinux was finished using the current version of talking archlinux, and I rebooted the hard drive spins up but no evidence that the sound card and speakers are even working appears until I hit a key on the keyboard about a minute after the disk spins up. Once I hit a key, archlinux starts talking but only after I hit a key. So, I have a couple questions. Is what I did properly considered a successful installation, and if not what step did I leave out of that installation which would have made archlinux talk at some point during the boot up process without the necessity of touching the keyboard first? ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html>
