It might be worth studying the progress on bug 606238 and bug 550625 See especially comment 62 on the first of those: the E6 and E7 reports say what the hardware actually is.
See also comment 492 on the second of those: Seth Forshee has provided an updated driver which successfully recognises and works with some hardware not previously supported. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/705243 Title: Ubnutu-certified laptop: Synaptics touchpad broken, misdetected as PS/2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/705243/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs