Out of the box the trackpad didn’t scroll or have “click” capability. Just creating these two files fixed the issue.

/etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-synaptics.fdi

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">true</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.MaxTapMove" type="string">2000</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.VertEdgeScroll" type="string">true</merge>
        <merge key="input.x11_options.HorizEdgeScroll" type="string">true</merge>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

/etc/hal/fdi/policy/mouse-wheel.fdi

<match key="info.product" string="TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint">
  <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheel" type="string">true</merge>
  <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton" type="string">2</merge>
  <merge key="input.x11_options.YAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
  <merge key="input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons" type="string">true</merge>
  <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelTimeout" type="string">200</merge>
</match>

Reboot and give it a try.