After I installed Intrepid Ibex on my new Alienware m15x, I was looking for some tuning tech tips to get out maximum performance of this machine. System tuning is a long-termed process and in most cases, 80 percent of the work only brings minimal performance enhancements. I really found a good blog entry which explicitly lists up only some tuning tips, that should bring greater improvements -- dedicated to the 80/20 rule:

http://www.sysadminsjourney.com/2008/08/31/quick-painless-ubuntu-speed-tweaks

Finally.... I got my Logitech MX1000 to work with all buttons under Intrepid Ibex (Ubuntu 8.10).

The basic installation can be found here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MX1000Mouse

This made the mx1000 work basically, everything but the 3rd thumb button (the application switchter button) worked. the tips using xvkbd didn't really work. after a post on ubuntuusers.de I got the final tip - use xautomation / xte instead of xvkbd:

http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/wie-belegt-man-super%2Be-windows-taste%2Be-mit-xb/

"xte 'keydown Super_L' 'key e' 'keyup Super_L'"

   b:10 # Maustaste 10

 maps the 3rd thumb button to "Super+e" which is the Exposé shortcut for compiz.

 perfect!