I tried all the i8042.* bootoptions you suggested. None got my touchpad up, but for your reading pleasure I'll attach the dmesg logs for each boot option. If you need some more info on my system or my hardware, please ask (and suggest the right command - I'm not all that good with bash yet).
** Attachment added: "dmesg debug.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12644416/dmesg%20debug.log -- [Hardy] synaptic touchpad not detected https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/195009 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs