Installing Arch GNU/Linux on TOSHIBA Satellite PRO U300

Installation:

I will not tell you basic setup of Arch Linux, because it has been told at Arch Linux beginners guide very well. So you can follow up the setps Part I (Install the Base System) and Part II (Configure&Update the New Arch Linux base system) exactly. After that:

1. We will install Xorg packet via terminal:

#sudo pacman -S xorg
2. Then we will install “fam”,”alsa-utils” and “fuse” with the same way:

#pacman -S fam alsa-utils fuse

3. Now we will install display adapter’s driver with:

#pacman -S xf86-video-intel

4. We will build our xorg.conf file adn move it to /etc/X11/

#Xorg-configure

#mv /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

5. We will edit our xorg.conf file, will change the driver from “vesa” to “intel”

#vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section “Device”

Driver “intel”

6. We will create a new user and give a password:

#useradd -m -G users,audio,lp,optical,storage,video,wheel,power -s /bin/bash cihan

#passwd cihan

7. Now we will install Kde:

#pacman -S kde kdeplasma-addons

8. To get KDM to start every time you boot, open up your /etc/inittab as root and change it as:

## Only one of the following two lines can be uncommented!
# Boot to console
#id:3:initdefault:
# Boot to X11
id:5:initdefault:

x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon

9. Now we will edit our “/etc/rc.conf”. We will add “hal” to the Daemons. And for audio we wil add “snd-hda-intel” to the modules:

MODULES=(….snd-hda-intel…..)

DAEMONS=(… hal …)

10. And for last step, we will install some useful applications:

#pacman -S gstreamer0.10-bad gstreamer0.10-ugly gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins
flashplugin ttf-ms-fonts amarok k3b mplayer tk ntfs-3g openoffice-base jre

That’s all. Now you can enjoy with you Arch.

Out of lspci:

[root@sysarch ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Turbo Memory Controller (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 01)
04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61)
0a:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
0a:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
0a:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
0a:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
0a:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff)

Kernel:

[root@sysarch ~]# uname -r
2.6.29-ARCH

Hard Disk Drive Partitions:

[root@sysarch ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0×885f41c9

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1         122      979933+  83  Linux —> /boot
/dev/sda2             123        1338     9767520   83  Linux —> /
/dev/sda3            1339        1836     4000185   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4            1837       38913   297821002+  83  Linux —> /home