no sound with onboard audio
 

i have onboard audio, i believe it is intel i810. shouldn't hwd find this? it hasn't. i don't want to give up on arch, but i have been having probs in almost every aspect

What does hwd tell you? I don't use it, personally, but I know it doesn't actually load modules for you, it just tells you which modules are appropriate, and then you load them yourself.

Yeah, put the intel 810 module in the /etc/rc.conf file. Here is the line from mine, the snd-intel8x0 does it...

MODULES=(!usbserial usb_storage sd_mod !parport !ide-scsi forcedeth snd-intel8x0 nvidia)

Check the wiki out
 

There is a comprehensive guide to setting up sound on the Arch website (www.archlinux.org). Go to the wiki pages and serach for Alsa.
See if that helps.

Enjoy Arch, it is fun.

actually i installed hwd and it did a little bit of flashing, then my sound started working