System Setup - cephi-sui/dotfiles GitHub Wiki

Networking

Enable firewall and networking.

systemctl enable --now firewalld NetworkManager systemd-resolved

Allow systemd-resolved to manage DNS resolution instead of NetworkManager.

ln -sf /run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf

If desired, connect to Wi-Fi.

<network> and <password> are dependent on the desired network.

nmcli d wifi list
nmcli d wifi connect <network> password <password>

systemctl enable --now systemd-timesyncd

systemctl enable --now systemd-oomd

systemctl enable fstrim.timer

Refresh pacman mirrors on a weekly basis.

pacman -Syu reflector && systemctl enable reflector.timer

Edit /etc/xdg/reflector/reflector.conf to prefer faster, closer mirrors.

/etc/xdg/reflector/reflector.conf
`--country "United States"`
`--sort rate`

pacman -Syu bluez bluez-utils && systemctl enable --now bluetooth

pacman -Syu power-profiles-daemon python-gobject && systemctl enable --now power-profiles-daemon
powerprofilesctl

pacman -Syu os-prober

Edit /etc/default/grub.

/etc/default/grub
`GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false`

Mount the partition containing the Windows bootloader and run this command.
It should have output stating that Windows was found.

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

mesa is the DRI driver for 3D acceleration.
vulkan-radeon adds Vulkan support.
libva-mesa-driver adds VA-API accelerated video decoding.

pacman -Syu mesa lib32-mesa vulkan-radeon lib32-vulkan-radeon libva-mesa-driver lib32-libva-mesa-driver

Optional: mesa-vdpau adds VDPAU accelerated video decoding.

pacman -Syu mesa-vdpau lib32-mesa-vdpau

Set the amdgpu.vm_update_mode=3 kernel parameter for AMD Radeon 7000 series.
This seems to fix a rare page fault issue when playing specific games.

/etc/default/grub
`GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 quiet amdgpu.vm_update_mode=3"`

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

Before you forget, set up the NVIDIA mkinitcpio hook for pacman.

Install NVIDIA drivers.

pacman -Syu nvidia nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils nvidia-settings

For Wayland compositors, set the modeset kernel module parameter in GRUB.

/etc/default/grub
`GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 quiet nvidia_drm.modeset=1"`

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

Make sure that nvidia drivers are in use.

lspci -k | grep -B 2 nvidia

mesa is the DRI driver for 3D acceleration.
vulkan-intel adds Vulkan support.
intel-media-driver adds VA-API accelerated video decoding.

pacman -Syu mesa lib32-mesa vulkan-intel lib32-vulkan-intel intel-media-driver
reboot