Two fingers required for scroll??

[mykrob]

It is the PS/2 Logitech Mouse device name.

With that much identified, how do I control how many fingers to use?
If I could just get the touchpad to show up under the system-->preferences-->mouse...

not sure if I mentioned this, but I am also unable to load the synaptics driver, which i presume is the root of the problem. The driver is most definitely on the computer, I just cant load it, not even manually:

myk@mobileThree:~$ sudo modprobe synaptics
[sudo] password for myk: 
FATAL: Module synaptics not found.
myk@mobileThree:~$ locate synaptics
/lib/modules/2.6.31-14-generic/kernel/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics_i2c.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.31-19-generic/kernel/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics_i2c.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.31-20-generic/kernel/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics_i2c.ko

[pi/roman]

Here are some things you could try:

lshal -s | grep i8042

then do:

lshal -u output

where output=whatever was listed on the first lshal which pertains to the mouse
You can pass boot options to our input controller like listed here:
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0401.0/0436.html
You could try i8042.reset for instance open /boot/grub/grub.cfg and place "i8042.reset" at the end of the "linux /boot/vmlinuz" line.

for more system data try

hwinfo --mouse
cat /proc/bus/input/devices
grep "^(EE)" /var/log/Xorg.0.log
grep "^(WW)" /var/log/Xorg.0.log

You could also check other logs in /var/log/ like syslog kern.log udev dmesg and messages
You could try blacklisting the driver that is loaded by placing it in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
That's all I can think of now.