Xorg - Synaptics not working on fresh install.

Question

Ok... This one has me scratching my head major.
After a certain snafu with e4rat I was forced to reinstall my system which I took the chance to do some redesign on the laptop system layout.
Decided to go with a lightweight DE and the whole gammut.
I get lxde installed, 'startx' Everything is hunky dorey, and I mean everything.  using the default synaptics conf that comes with xf86-input-synaptics. I get a whole bunch more software installed and reboot to try out the whol SLiM DM (which didn't work btw)
So SLiM descides it's not going to load up lxde for me. type in username, password, hit enter and the screen flashes and comes back to SLiM... kill SLiM and startx... pointer doesn't work. reboot, startx...pointer doesn't work.
from /var/log/Xorg.o.log...
[ 69.119] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel Headphone (/dev/input/event10)
[ 69.119] (**) HDA Intel Headphone: Applying InputClass "evdev touchpad catchall"
[ 69.119] (**) HDA Intel Headphone: Applying InputClass "touchpad catchall"
[ 69.119] (II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
[ 69.119] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
[ 69.130] (II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 69.131] compiled for 1.10.0, module version = 1.4.0
[ 69.131] Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
[ 69.131] ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 12.2
[ 69.131] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'HDA Intel Headphone'
[ 69.131] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
[ 69.131] (**) HDA Intel Headphone: always reports core events
[ 69.131] (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event10"
[ 69.256] (--) HDA Intel Headphone: invalid x-axis range. defaulting to 1615 - 5685
[ 69.256] (--) HDA Intel Headphone: invalid y-axis range. defaulting to 1729 - 4171
[ 69.256] (--) HDA Intel Headphone: invalid pressure range. defaulting to 0 - 256
[ 69.256] (--) HDA Intel Headphone: invalid finger width range. defaulting to 0 - 16
[ 69.257] (**) Option "TapButton1" "1"
[ 69.257] (**) Option "TapButton2" "2"
[ 69.257] (**) Option "TapButton3" "3"
[ 69.363] (--) HDA Intel Headphone: no supported touchpad found
[ 69.363] (EE) HDA Intel Headphone Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
[ 69.416] (EE) PreInit returned 11 for "HDA Intel Headphone"
[ 69.416] (II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"
[ 69.416] (II) Unloading synaptics
Why is it ??associating?? my headphone jack with the synaptics?
Thinking I royally screwed something up and just for fun I sh*t-can the system and reinstall. The effects are reproduceable. 'startx' on a fresh install the synaptics pad works just fine, loads the synaptics driver against the synaptics device. But once I reboot...

Answer 1

I have the config files that came down with the packages.
xorg.conf doesn't exist.
xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad catchall"
Driver "synaptics"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "TapButton2" "2"
Option "TapButton3" "3"
EndSection
xorg.conf.d/10-quirks.conf
# Collection of quirks and blacklist/whitelists for specific devices.
# Accelerometer device, posts data through ABS_X/ABS_Y, making X unusable
# http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22442
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "ThinkPad HDAPS accelerometer blacklist"
MatchProduct "ThinkPad HDAPS accelerometer data"
Option "Ignore" "on"
EndSection
xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf
# Catch-all evdev loader for udev-based systems
# We don't simply match on any device since that also adds accelerometers
# and other devices that we don't really want to use. The list below
# matches everything but joysticks.
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev pointer catchall"
MatchIsPointer "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev tablet catchall"
MatchIsTablet "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev touchscreen catchall"
MatchIsTouchscreen "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection