Found a quick solve in this thread I essentially went to an Ubuntu 7.10 box and copied the synaptics driver from there, and copied it over the existing one. Works fine now (so far.) Darienby darien - Hardware, Wifi's and Drivers
While using the liveCD the touchpad is VERY slow, and after installing the touchpad stayed slow. I've read up and found out I need to install gsynaptics, which I did. I have it all installed but here's the issue. I have synclient 0.14.6 installed (driver) I have gsynaptics 0.97 installed (gui) Both of these are current in synapse. when you try to turn on gsynaptics you get:by darien - Hardware, Wifi's and Drivers