Manjaro (Arch Linux) on MacBook Pro (early 2011) post install notes

manjaro-mbp-early2011.md

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you in trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” -- Mark Twain

CPU

http://ark.intel.com/products/53449/Intel-Core-i5-2415M-Processor-3M-Cache-up-to-2_90-GHz

64-bit, 2-core, 4-thread, 8G 1333MHz DDR3 2-channel, 2.3 ~ 2.9 GHz, GPU 650 MHz ~ 1.3 GHz dual monitor

Post Manjaro install

• linux4 - kernel, headers, broadcom-wl
• system-config-printer
• git
• nodejs, npm
• virtualbox, vagrant, docker, docker-compose
• openssh, sshfs
• nmap
• i7z, perf
• acetoneISO, dvdrip(transcode), winff(ffmpeg, xterm)

Install, Orphan list, Remove packages

sudo pacman -S <package>
pacman -Qdt
sudo packman -R <package>

Force upgrade everything

sudo pacman -Syu --force

See pacman troubleshooting here,

1. https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Pacman_troubleshooting
2. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman#Troubleshooting

Change cpu freq profile

cpupower frequency-info | grep governor
sudo cpupower frequency-set -g performance

Need to permanently set in /etc/default/cpupower and enable a service to change at boot:

systemctl enable cpupower

Reset hostname

sudo hostnamectl set-hostname my-pretty-cow

Fix virtualbox using dkms

dkms autoinstall

Or just install the *-host-modules package.

Access System Info

• inxi -F
• pstree
• lsmod, lscpu
• uname -a

Sort git tags by date

git tag | xargs -I@ git log --format=format:"%ai @%n" -1 @ | sort -r | awk '{print $4}' | head -5

Search for available services

nmap -p 80 -sT 192.168.1.*

Access Mac Shared Folder using sshfs

//mount
sshfs Tim@mac-mini-server:/Volumes/Macintosh\ HD2/Shared/ ~/Videos/remote

//unmount
fusermount -u ~/Videos/remote

Socks5 proxy tun for FireFox/Chrome

ssh -D 8123 -CnNqf tim@innobubble.com (localhost:8123, SOCKS v5, Remote-DNS) See lsof -i or netstat -lptun for pid to kill.

Hibernate still not working

Hibernate will restart the machine atm... (resume Hook and swap uuid correctly setup)25

Recover from zoom-in

Alt-mousewheel (2-finger rotate)

Disable touchpad while typing

See Mouse & Touchpad configure -- locking delay <= 0.5s (50ms - 450ms)

Recover from vncserver (local login issue)

rm ~/.Xauthority

It is very important that you have extended your MacBook Pro memory to 8GB+. Please check with Intel on the maximum memory your CPU supports, although x86-64bits conceptually supports 16EB, current ones equip enough transistors to only address 48-bit which gives you a maximum of 256TB. Early 64bits CPU addresses even less...

On an early 2011 MacBook Pro, the Intel CPU inside can only address 8GB. So go get a pair of 8G 1333MHz DDR3 2-channel SODIMM and change the CPU governor to performance if want to use Manjaro. (A virtualbox vm, terminal, firfox and chrome will give you around 3~4GB less of the total memory)