I “enhanced” my Lenovo x230i Laptop with an Intel 525 128 GB Harddrive in mSata format
I intend to use this SSD as main OS partitions (C:\ / ), the original 500GB HD will be for swap/var/home partitions (see underneath).
This install covers the useless new “hype” UEFI / GPT crap … all this to keep laughing at Windows 8!

Here's the output of lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev c4)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation QM77 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
02:00.0 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd PCIe SDXC/MMC Host Controller (rev 07)
03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01)

Here's the output of lsusb

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:2514 Standard Microsystems Corp. USB 2.0 Hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0a5c:21e6 Broadcom Corp. BCM20702 Bluetooth 4.0 [ThinkPad]
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 04f2:b2ea Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Integrated Camera [ThinkPad]

Here's the output of cpuinfo

processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 58
model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3120M CPU @ 2.50GHz
stepping	: 9
microcode	: 0x17
cpu MHz		: 1200.000
cache size	: 3072 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 0
cpu cores	: 2
apicid		: 0
initial apicid	: 0
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 13
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer xsave avx f16c lahf_lm arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms
bogomips	: 4990.41
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
 
processor	: 1
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 58
model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3120M CPU @ 2.50GHz
stepping	: 9
microcode	: 0x17
cpu MHz		: 1200.000
cache size	: 3072 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 0
cpu cores	: 2
apicid		: 1
initial apicid	: 1
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 13
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer xsave avx f16c lahf_lm arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms
bogomips	: 4990.41
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
 
processor	: 2
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 58
model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3120M CPU @ 2.50GHz
stepping	: 9
microcode	: 0x17
cpu MHz		: 1200.000
cache size	: 3072 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 1
cpu cores	: 2
apicid		: 2
initial apicid	: 2
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 13
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer xsave avx f16c lahf_lm arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms
bogomips	: 4990.41
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
 
processor	: 3
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 58
model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3120M CPU @ 2.50GHz
stepping	: 9
microcode	: 0x17
cpu MHz		: 1200.000
cache size	: 3072 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 1
cpu cores	: 2
apicid		: 3
initial apicid	: 3
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 13
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer xsave avx f16c lahf_lm arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms
bogomips	: 4990.41
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

• Installation guide

Boot on the USB stick (I created mine using unetbootin ~ lazy :D - the isos are taken from here → https://www.archlinux.org/download/ take the mirror closest to you and select the netinstall ISO)

Let's launch the network + sshd so we can copy paste some nice commands right from an already installed machine

ip addr show

Start sshd

systemctl start sshd

Set a root password

passwd

Done with Clonezilla (again lazyness ) - you can use cfdisk to do the job

Let's format all these partitions in ext4 format.

mkfs.vfat -F32 -n EFI /dev/sdb5
mkfs.ext4 -E discard -L LINUX /dev/sdb6
mkfs.ext4 -L VAR /dev/sda2
mkfs.ext4 -L HOME /dev/sda3
mkswap -L SWAP /dev/sda1

The option -E discard is because /dev/sdb is an SSD!

Mounting and creating mount points:

mount /dev/sdb6 /mnt
mkdir /mnt/{home,var,boot,boot/efi}
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/var
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/home
mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt/boot/efi
swapon /dev/sda1

Check

mount

I'll then install base packages plus base-devel packages

pacstrap /mnt base base-devel

For SSD tweaks and to make it shine: SSD

• generate fstab

genfstab -L -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

Yes I use Labels, UUID sucks

• edit fstab

Before:

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system> <dir>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# /dev/sdb3 UUID=34cedc78-e156-4dbb-a428-4d594d6b34a8
LABEL=LINUX             /               ext4            rw,relatime,data=ordered        0 1

# /dev/sda2 UUID=f8a1e862-64b7-41d7-ac7d-4b75b346ceb5
LABEL=VAR               /var            ext4            rw,relatime,data=ordered        0 2

# /dev/sda3 UUID=57552366-9356-43bf-8bd2-bb0b25a1d318
LABEL=HOME              /home           ext4            rw,relatime,data=ordered        0 2

# /dev/sdb5 UUID=1F63-6ACD
LABEL=EFI               /boot/efi       vfat            rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro    0 2

# /dev/sda1 UUID=dcba8ead-fb4b-4e06-a9e5-1a55f1c353e0
LABEL=SWAP              none            swap            defaults        0 0

They love UUIDs …
Anyway, let's modify the line of / on SSD
After:

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system> <dir>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# /dev/sdb3 UUID=34cedc78-e156-4dbb-a428-4d594d6b34a8
LABEL=LINUX             /               ext4            defaults,noatime,discard        0 1

# /dev/sda2 UUID=f8a1e862-64b7-41d7-ac7d-4b75b346ceb5
LABEL=VAR               /var            ext4            rw,relatime,data=ordered        0 2

# /dev/sda3 UUID=57552366-9356-43bf-8bd2-bb0b25a1d318
LABEL=HOME              /home           ext4            rw,relatime,data=ordered        0 2

# /dev/sdb5 UUID=1F63-6ACD
LABEL=EFI               /boot/efi       vfat            rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro    0 2

# /dev/sda1 UUID=dcba8ead-fb4b-4e06-a9e5-1a55f1c353e0
LABEL=SWAP              none            swap            defaults        0 0

I use Syslinux since it does its job well! Syslinux
But for UEFI, it's still work in progress … so let's go for grub Grub
os-prober is supposed to find other systems installed

pacstrap /mnt grub-efi-x86_64 os-prober

Let's go to our new system!

arch-chroot /mnt 

• /etc/hostname

 echo Yoru > /etc/hostname 

• /etc/locale.gen

I'll use en_US.utf-8/iso8859 and fr_FR.* so uncomment:

en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_US ISO-8859-1
fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8  
fr_FR ISO-8859-1  
fr_FR@euro ISO-8859-15 

The generate locales

 locale-gen 

• /etc/locale.conf Locale

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
 
# Keep the default sort order (e.g. files starting with a '.'
# should appear at the start of a directory listing.)
LC_COLLATE="C"

• /etc/vconsole.conf

Default keyboard in console (US variant international … with a different mapping than on X11! Well done)

echo "KEYMAP=us-acentos" > /etc/vconsole.conf

• /etc/localtime

ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Paris /etc/localtime

• /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

No touch just regenerate it in case …

mkinitcpio -p linux

• Grub 2 (the return)

modprobe dm-mod
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=arch_grub --recheck --debug
mkdir -p /boot/grub/locale
cp /usr/share/locale/en\@quot/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo /boot/grub/locale/en.mo

• root password

passwd

First use Ctrl+D to escape from the chroot
then:

umount /mnt/var /mnt/home /mnt/boot/efi /mnt

Now is the time to light a candle and type

reboot

So thanks to all nice actors involved it didn't work …
I had to tweak the UEFI firmware by hand:

• Boot the Arch CD and select UEFI Shell v2 (can't wait for v3 … )

search the “partition” aka fsX where your EFI crap is located you can do so by typing

fs1: [ENTER]

then navigate with dir to list and cd to move
Find where your nice grubx64.efi file is located (mine was in /boot/efi/EFI/arch_grub/grubx64.efi which in UEFI shell is … fs3:\EFI\arch_grub\grubx64.efi)
And then a bit more of black magic …

bcfg boot add 0 fs3:\EFI\arch_grub\grubx64.efi "Archlinux"

Here I add a new Entry at the TOP ! Check what places you have free (cf UEFI Shell ) Then, the nightmare was not over … GRUB 2 was launching however with some funky UUID … I corrected the entry .. .thx to the LABELS !!!!: Press 'e' to edit
remove:

if [ x$feature...
  search ...
else
  search ...
fi

then just add in place:

 search --no-floppy --label LINUX --set-root

AND underneath of course they couldn't stop using UUID … remove:

linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=wh4tZ3-FucK-....

By … wait for it:

linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=LABEL=LINUX

Press F10 And hurray it boots!!!!!!
After boot first thing I did was

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

It fixed the UUIDs and even found the Windows 8 partition and created the entry !

So, happily you used to refer to your network card as eth0? Forget it! Now huge brains have decided for you, even if you don't have any issue that the notation will change! Great … so my eth0 is called … wait for it: enp0s25 perfect. So let's remove that shit! (wlan0 is called wlp3s0 by the way - unfortunately, so far they didn't change the lo interface \o/ it's called … lo … what a lack of imagination!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

ln -s /dev/null /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-name-slot.rules

Reboot! Yeah you know just like on Windows©

Once you have back a proper name for you interfaces …

 systemctl enable dhcpcd@eth0 

And then it slows down your boot! Isn't that nice? Well coded.
Reference: Network

Reference: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netctl

pacman -S netctl wpa_supplicant

cd /etc/netctl/examples/

Copy on of the example regarding the type of network you want to access:

cp wireless-wpa-configsection ../university

Edit the file with proper settings (SSID / user … )

cd /etc/netctl
vi university

I don't use auto-wifi service I start it when needed:

netctl start university

Access remotely:

 pacman -Sy openssh 

Enable it at boot

 systemctl enable sshd

Reference: SHA_Password

vi /etc/pam.d/passwd
password	required	pam_unix.so sha512 shadow nullok rounds=65536

Then rehash your passwords!

passwd

useradd -g users -m -s /bin/bash warnaud
passwd warnaud

# ls -altrh `which vi`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2 Nov 16 18:34 /usr/bin/vi -> ex

Prefer vim?

pacman -S vim
rm /usr/bin/vi &&  ln -s /usr/bin/vim /usr/bin/vi

Since gpm is a dependency of vim let's use it!

systemctl enable gpm
systemctl start gpm

Reference: Xorg & Intel Install all those packages …

# pacman -S xorg-server xorg-apps xorg-fonts xorg-fonts-100dpi xorg-fonts-75dpi xorg-twm xorg-xclock xorg-xinit xorg-xdm xterm xf86-video-intel xorg-xmessage xorg-xcalc xorg-xfontsel xorg-utils

Reply to questions:

:: There are 37 members in group xorg-apps:
:: Repository extra
   1) xorg-bdftopcf  2) xorg-iceauth  3) xorg-luit  4) xorg-mkfontdir  5) xorg-mkfontscale  6) xorg-sessreg  7) xorg-setxkbmap  8) xorg-smproxy
   9) xorg-x11perf  10) xorg-xauth  11) xorg-xbacklight  12) xorg-xcmsdb  13) xorg-xcursorgen  14) xorg-xdpyinfo  15) xorg-xdriinfo  16) xorg-xev
   17) xorg-xgamma  18) xorg-xhost  19) xorg-xinput  20) xorg-xkbcomp  21) xorg-xkbevd  22) xorg-xkbutils  23) xorg-xkill  24) xorg-xlsatoms
   25) xorg-xlsclients  26) xorg-xmodmap  27) xorg-xpr  28) xorg-xprop  29) xorg-xrandr  30) xorg-xrdb  31) xorg-xrefresh  32) xorg-xset  33) xorg-xsetroot
   34) xorg-xvinfo  35) xorg-xwd  36) xorg-xwininfo  37) xorg-xwud
 
Enter a selection (default=all):
:: There are 2 members in group xorg-fonts:
:: Repository extra
   1) xorg-font-util  2) xorg-fonts-encodings
 
Enter a selection (default=all): 1
resolving dependencies...
:: There are 4 providers available for libgl:
:: Repository extra
   1) mesa-libgl  2) nvidia-304xx-utils  3) nvidia-libgl
:: Repository community
   4) catalyst-utils
 
Enter a number (default=1): 1

Add some modules at boot for KMS

vi /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

...
MODULES="i915"
...

Acceleration method

vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
   Driver      "intel"
   Option      "AccelMethod"  "sna"
EndSection

 vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf 

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
        Option "XkbLayout" "us"
        Option "XkbVariant" "intl"
EndSection

Reference: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDM

pacman -S xorg-xdm

Enable systemd service

systemctl enable xdm.service

Optional, if you made a customize version

vi /usr/lib/systemd/system/xdm.service

[Unit]
Description=X-Window Display Manager
After=systemd-user-sessions.service
 
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/xdm -c /etc/X11/xdm/lcars-xdm/xdm-config -nodaemon
Type=notify
NotifyAccess=all
 
[Install]
Alias=display-manager.service

Copy the necessary files from /etc/skel

cp /etc/skel/.xsession ~/.

make sure its permission are 774

pacman -S fvwm

Import my configuration:

mkdir ~/.fvwm && cd .fvwm && svn co https://fvwm.svn.beanstalkapp.com/fvwm/trunk/bazooka . 

Reference: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Alsa

pacman -S alsa-utils

Set volume levels:

alsamixer

Test:

speaker-test -c 2

Reference: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Laptop

To have access to buttons + power settings, first install acpi and acpid

pacman -S acpi acpid

Reference:https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acpi and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acpid and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ACPI_hotkeys Start the deamon and enable it:

systemctl enable acpid

systemctl start acpid

For other nice osd display install tpb :

yaourt -S tpb

Reference:https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ThinkPad_OSD Configure it:

vi /etc/tpbrc

OSDCOLOR    Green
OSDVERTICAL 0
OSDHORIZONTAL 0
OSDPOS      MIDDLE
OSDALIGN    CENTER

Create a special rule to suspend everything if battery is at 2% Doesn't work …

vi /etc/udev/rules.d/lowbat.rules

## SLEEP IF BATTERY IS LOW
SUBSYSTEM=="power_supply", ATTR{status}=="Discharging", ATTR{capacity}=="2", RUN+="/usr/bin/systemctl suspend"

Power consumption for Intel Graphics:

vi /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf

options i915 i915_enable_rc6=1 i915_enable_fbc=1 lvds_downclock=1

Rebuild the kernel:

mkinitcpio -p linux && mkinitcpio -p linux-ck

Reference:https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TLP Install required packages:

yaourt -S tlp tp_smapi tp_smapi-ck dkms-acpi_call-git smartmontools

tp_smapi doesn't seems to launch … Enable the service:

systemctl enable tlp

Reference: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sysctl add in /etc/sysctl.conf

vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs=1500
vm.laptop_mode=5 

Deactivate the useless touchpad:

 vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf 

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev touchpad catchall"
        MatchIsTouchpad "off"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Check alternate solution:https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Synaptics_Touchpad

This hack will enable scrolling using the middle button + the TrackPoint™®©

vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-thinkpad.conf

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier	"Trackpoint Wheel Emulation"
    MatchProduct	    "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint|DualPoint Stick|Synaptics Inc. Composite TouchPad / TrackPoint|ThinkPad USB Keyboard with TrackPoint|USB Trackpoint pointing device"
    MatchDevicePath	    "/dev/input/event*"
    Option		    "EmulateWheel"        "true"
    Option		    "EmulateWheelButton"  "2"
    Option		    "Emulate3Buttons"	  "false"
    Option		    "XAxisMapping"	  "6 7"
    Option		    "YAxisMapping"        "4 5"
EndSection

Reference: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bluetooth

pacman -S bluez

Any of this required?

Optional dependencies for bluez
    gstreamer0.10-base: bluetooth GStreamer support
    alsa-lib: Audio bluetooth devices support [installed]
    dbus-python: to run bluez-simple-agent
    pygobject: to run bluez-simple-agent
    libusb-compat: USB adapters support
    cups: CUPS backend

I kind of never use bluetooth so I start it when necessary

systemctl start bluetooth.service

.. have some fun with it

Mute/Volume up and Down are recognized by default in xev, so with xbindkeys let's map them

pacman -S xbindkeys

Create a file that contain the definition of the buttons + the action(s)

vi ~/.xbindkeysrc.scm

Here I'll map Mute / Volume up / Volume Down

(xbindkey '("XF86AudioMute") "amixer set Master toggle")
(xbindkey '("XF86AudioRaiseVolume") "amixer set Master 2dB+ unmute")
(xbindkey '("XF86AudioLowerVolume") "amixer set Master 2dB- unmute")

Last but not least, add

xbindkeys &

To your ~/.xinitrc or whatever file launched at login

It's always nice to see some logs even if they are in binary format ……

Hint: You are currently not seeing messages from other users and the system.
      Users in the 'systemd-journal' group can see all messages. Pass -q to
      turn off this notice.

Fix:

sudo gpasswd -a USERNAME systemd-journal

vi /etc/pacman.conf

...
[archlinuxfr]
SigLevel = Never
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/$arch

\o/ No signature

Reference: http://archlinux.fr/yaourt-en

pacman -Sy yaourt

pacman -S sudo

visudo

...
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
someuser ALL=(ALL) ALL

Just add the 'someuser' line

just for fun not really mandatory Reference: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg.conf

vi /etc/makepkg.conf

Modify CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS:

# -march=native also sets the correct -mtune=
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

Modify MAKEFLAGS (4 = output of nproc)

MAKEFLAGS="-j4"

List of software I use and abuse

yaourt -S screen bash-completion wavemon glances htop bmon irssi lftp rsync wget curl bc figlet toilet pmount dfc git rdesktop

I use yaourt since some of them are not in repositories and then built from aur

Reference: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cups

pacman -S libcups cups cups-filters ghostscript gsfonts

For more aggressive scheduling, you can use the ck patchset
References:

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel26-ck
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Repo-ck

Super up-to-date

vi /etc/pacman.conf

Add at the end:

[repo-ck]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Server = http://repo-ck.com/$arch

Add keys for signing shit …

pacman-key -r 5EE46C4C
pacman-key --lsign-key 5EE46C4C

Refresh pacman's database:

pacman -Sy

Install kernel-ck matching your architecture (see Repo-ck page for reference)

pacman -S linux-ck-ivybridge linux-ck-ivybridge-headers

Add a nice entry in syslinux

vi /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg

...
DEFAULT arch-ck
...
LABEL arch-ck
        MENU LABEL Arch Linux CK
        LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-ck
        APPEND root=/dev/sdb3 ro
        INITRD ../initramfs-linux-ck.img quiet ipv6.disable=1 elevator=bfq
 
LABEL arch-ck-fallback
        MENU LABEL Arch Linux CK Fallback
        LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux-ck
        APPEND root=/dev/sdb3 ro
        INITRD ../initramfs-linux-ck-fallback.img
...

Bye bye IPv6 and change the schedule to Con Kolivas' bfq

pacman -S rxvt-unicode urxvt-perls

(Not yet implemented : )

 URxvt.perl-ext-common:      default,clipboard,url-select,keyboard-select
 URxvt.url-select.launcher:  chromium
 URxvt.url-select.underline: true
 URxvt.keysym.M-u:           perl:url-select:select_next
 URxvt.keysym.M-Escape:      perl:keyboard-select:activate
 URxvt.keysym.M-s:           perl:keyboard-select:search

yaourt -S chromium hsetroot imagemagick vlc emelfm2 flashplugin xosd

For acrobat reader/skype, there's a need for the multilib repository … well coded too!

vi /etc/pacman.conf

Uncomment:

[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Then:

yaourt -Sy acroread skype

tons of 32bits libraries …. acroread libre-office* fonts skype…

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Readahead

Reference: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ntfs

pacman -S ntfs-3g

vi /etc/fstab

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system> <dir>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# /dev/sdb3 UUID=34cedc78-e156-4dbb-a428-4d594d6b34a8
LABEL=LINUX             /               ext4            defaults,noatime,discard        0 1
 
# /dev/sda2 UUID=f8a1e862-64b7-41d7-ac7d-4b75b346ceb5
LABEL=VAR               /var            ext4            rw,relatime,data=ordered        0 2
 
# /dev/sda3 UUID=57552366-9356-43bf-8bd2-bb0b25a1d318
LABEL=HOME              /home           ext4            rw,relatime,data=ordered        0 2
 
# /dev/sda1 UUID=dcba8ead-fb4b-4e06-a9e5-1a55f1c353e0
LABEL=SWAP              none            swap            defaults                        0 0
 
# /dev/sda4 Windows
LABEL=DATA              /media/data     ntfs-3g         uid=warnaud,gid=users           0 0

Imagine Office in Java? There you go …
Reference: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LibreOffice

yaourt -S ttf-dejavu artwiz-fonts libreoffice libreoffice-en-US libreoffice-fr

Free to install ~70 pkgs \o/

Reference: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ntp

pacman -S ntp

vi /etc/ntp.conf

server 0.fr.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 1.fr.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 2.fr.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 3.fr.pool.ntp.org iburst

systemctl start ntpd

Well I don't enable it since … I mostely have no connection at boot on a laptop