Description of problem: BuildRequires for xorg-x11-drv-synaptics does not list libXtst-devel, so syndaemon is built without the RECORD extension. This causes it to poll. Not desired.
xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.5.0-2.fc17 http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3424220
xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.5.0-2.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.5.0-2.fc16
xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.5.0-2.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.