Couldnt get the touchpad working for weeks, after much digging around it finally works, below is the
xorg.conf i used to get it working:

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier     “single head configuration”
Screen      0  “Screen0″ 0 0
InputDevice    “Keyboard0″ “CoreKeyboard”
InputDevice    “Mouse2″ “CoreMouse”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”
#       Option      “Device” “/dev/input/event3″
#       Option      “MaxTapTime” “0”
Identifier  “Mouse2″
Driver      “synaptics”
Option        “Protocol” “auto-dev”
Option        “SendCoreEvents”
Option        “SHMConfig” “yes”
Option        “TapButton1″ “1”
Option        “TapButton2″ “2”
Option        “Emulate3Buttons” “yes”
Option        “LeftEdge” “120”
Option        “RightEdge” “830”
Option        “TopEdge” “120”
Option        “BottomEdge” “600”
Option        “FingerLow” “14”
Option        “FingerHigh” “15”
# Set MaxTapTime to 0 to disable tapping
Option        “MaxTapTime” “180”
Option        “MaxTapMove” “110”
Option        “VertScrollDelta” “20”
Option        “HorizScrollDelta” “20”
Option        “AccelFactor” “0.030”
Option        “MinSpeed” “0.5”
Option        “MaxSpeed” “1.0”
EndSection

Section “InputDevice”

# keyboard added by rhpxl
Identifier  “Keyboard0″
Driver      “kbd”
Option        “XkbModel” “pc105″
Option        “XkbLayout” “gb”
EndSection

Section “Device”
Identifier  “Videocard0″
Driver      “intel”
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Screen0″
Device     “Videocard0″
DefaultDepth     24
SubSection “Display”
Viewport   0 0
Depth     24
EndSubSection
EndSection