From my notes, copied here in the hope that it might save others a stack of time if/when they encounter this incredibly annoying problem with their Synaptics TouchPad, and need to find a fix for it.
Problem: "Unable to connect to the Synaptics Pointing Device Driver." - FIXEDBelow is a summary of the different driver versions and the fix I applied.
![Synaptics TouchPad problem fix - 02 driver version table.jpg](https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=38806.0;attach=85721;image)