I think the reason my xorg.conf was ignored is explained because Intrepid ignores it. I'm not sure what gsyanptics needs to work, but even without being able to adjust the parameters, the touchkpad behaves much better with this one line modification to alps.c.
The kernel I added the one line of identification to was:
frohro@ Engr-FrohRo- 6400:~$ uname -r
2.6.27-4-generic
I second a plea for this to be put in the kernel.
I think the reason my xorg.conf was ignored is explained because Intrepid ignores it. I'm not sure what gsyanptics needs to work, but even without being able to adjust the parameters, the touchkpad behaves much better with this one line modification to alps.c.
Rob