Setting up the Touchpad is little different in Ubuntu 8.10.

Here is a post I found on how to set up HAL since the xorg method will not work with 8.10.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6077309&postcount=121

You can see what I use this for in Step #3 on this post:

http://blog.hyperandy.com/2008/05/03/acer-aspire-4720z/

also, adding syndaemon -i 1 -d to your session start works with this as well…..

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