For what it's worth, I just tried it in Natty Alpha 2 (kernel 2.6.38-1), and got the same symptoms and these similar messages (repeated ad infinitum):
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1 psmouse.c: issuing reconnect request Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 7.2, id: 0x1c0b1, caps: 0xd04733/0xa40000/0xa0000 input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input14 psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
For what it's worth, I just tried it in Natty Alpha 2 (kernel 2.6.38-1), and got the same symptoms and these similar messages (repeated ad infinitum):
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/ serio1/ input0 lost sync at byte 1 0xa40000/ 0xa0000 platform/ i8042/serio1/ input/input14 serio1/ input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: issuing reconnect request
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 7.2, id: 0x1c0b1, caps: 0xd04733/
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/
psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/