Hi,

My Dad for me a new laptop when I was in hospital last week (scientific 
epilepsy):
http://www.novatech.co.uk/laptop/range/novatechnspiren1735.html

All things work except for the touchpad.
The Windoz install discs have Synaptics drivers.

Neither lsusb or lspci show anything relating.

After much playing around the strong suspicion is that either the kernel 
3.10 or x11 do not support it.

Any help would be kindly appreciated.
Gentoo or Funtoo are undesirable options.

Pity, it's a nice 4" wide thing that just fits a 120lbs rock and ice 
climbers hands.
Heck, can scratch the knees without bending.

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Best Regards,
David Greig