Comment 17 for bug 123775

trying to be too smart for my own good, i figured i would have a go and see if the new 2.6.22 kernel supported the touchpad using this guide:
http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_ubuntu

once done and booted into, cat /proc/bus/input/devices shows exactly the same as before, as does cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |grep synaptics

If this is a kernel recognition issue, what can i/we do about it?

Thanks

Alan