> I'm not sure what that tells me, and since neither system has an
> xorg.conf I'm not sure where the touchpad is configured - presumably on
> the fly.
Is this of any use? I was going to suggest that you needed to create
something hal-related but I'm not very familiar with the different
flavours of Ubuntu and it looks like that was chucked out at some
point.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1190259