Fix mouse / touch pad issues on dell e4300

Issue, the mouse sometimes jumps when scrolling a web page or clicking on a button.

Seem to be related to the touch pad but it does help to disable the touch pad.
(enable synaptic in ubuntu https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad)

This will fix the issue:
Edit (as root) /etc/modprobe.d/options and add:

Code:

options psmouse proto=bare

The downside is that the touch pad will stay enabled with no (?) way to disable it.

Another HD sample page (MS)

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx

Howto build deb package

http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=56965

xbmcbuntu - manually install live components

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/runXBMC.sh

wget http://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xbmc/branches/linuxport/XBMC/tools/XBMCLive/runXBMC

sudo cp runXBMC /usr/bin/runXBMC

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/runXBMC

The other live components:

http://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xbmc/branches/linuxport/XBMC/tools/XBMCLive/

Copy root partition to another disk

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=978079

HOWTO revert to old svn

sudo dpkg -i xbmc-common_9.04.2+svn22278-jaunty1_i386.deb xbmc-skin-pm3-hd_9.04.2+svn22278-jaunty1_i386.deb xbmc-web-pm3_9.04.2+svn22278-jaunty1_i386.deb

or

sudo apt-get install xbmc=[svnVERSION]  

(e.g. 22278)

The packages are stored in /var/cache/apt/archives

Revert to old version in svn  source directory

svn up --revision  22278

(svn guide http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1167578)

openbox or fluxbox?

The main reason I picked openbox was that on debian it was the only one that use the keyboard layout from the command line installation without any config. On Ubuntu this does not seem to be a problem.

If you only want a basic wm behind xbmc and don't want to config maybe fluxbox is better since has a panel and a working menu from scratch.