Installing arch linux on an Acer Aspire One?

[Kerry Hoath]

I have found on some machines with Grml and this possibly holds  true 
for arch as well that the speakers are set to 0 but headphones are 
audible and usable.
try plugging in a set of headphones or external speakers to initially 
set the volume without site.
The Intel High definition audio codecs treat the headphones and speakers 
as 2 different mixer devices sometimes more.
Regards, Kerry.

On 9/09/2010 9:21 PM, Terry D. Cudney wrote:
> Hi again,
>
>     Replying to my own message...
>
>     Got some eyes and found that everything was working, just the volume was set to zero on the Speaker device... Had them turn up the volume and all seems to be working...
>
>     Is the default ALSA volmume 0 for the Speaker device in the iso image? Doesn't seem right, since there is no speech on booting fromthe iso. You have to get sighted help to adjust the volume.
>
>     Perhaps just an anomaly in my setup?
>
>     --terry
>
> On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 07:28:09AM -0400, Terry D. Cudney wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>     First attempt to install Arch Linux from a USB stick on an Acer Aspire One fails to talk on boot. it does boot, I had some eyes here last night to say that the login prompt was on screen, but didn't get to see if there was a dmesg indication of the audio device... I assume that this is the problem, that there is no driver for the audio device in the iso on the data stick.
>>
>>     If anyone has used the Arch Linux installer  to install on an Acer Aspire One, I'd appreciate hearing how they went aboutit.
>>
>>     TIA,
>>
>>     --terry
>>
>> --
>> Name:	Terry D. Cudney
>> Phone:	705-881-6161
>> E-mail:	terry.cudney at gmail.com
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