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1. remove the xorg.conf file (backup, whatever) to let hal do its thing

2. edit the hal policy in usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/11-x11-synaptics.fdi

I found that it was necessary to edit this file since all the options in it are commented out by default. It seems that hal doesn't load the synaptics driver for the X server if there are no options specified.

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3. restart hald and the X server