I finally figured out what the problem was. If I completely remove any
reference to synaptics from my xorg.conf then synclient and syndaemon
work as documented. Apparently it is not a good idea to have
configuration done both by xorg.conf and by HAL.
I had the same setup in xorg.conf for several years, but apparently the
latest version of the synaptics driver prefers to be configured via
HAL. This is not well-documented in the README or NEWS files. There is
a brief mention of auto-configuration and HAL in README.Debian but then
it goes on to describe manual configuration using xorg.conf, which is
seemingly not the proper method now.
So the fix was as follows. I removed all references to the synaptics
driver from my xorg.conf, then restarted X. At that point I could use
synclient to configure the touchpad as documented in the man page. To
make my settings permanent, I copied the default fdi file from:
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/11-x11-synaptics.fdi
to:
/etc/hal/fdi/11-x11-synaptics.fdi
Then I edited that file to set my configuration variables. After
restarting HAL and X everything worked as it is supposed to.
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