Nope tried through the GUI and then even did an ls -l of the /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor directory but there's no synaptics.fdi file there.
Googled it up and found the x11 file at
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/inde...t-1006947.html.
Then touched a synaptics.fdi file at etc/hal/fdi/policy like you said and did a gedit and copied the code there.
The <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge> doesn't seem to work from the shell. It says "syntax error near token 1"
I don't know what that means. Sorry if I sound like I need to be bottle-fed but I'm just picking up linux.
Any help would be welcome.