HAL not detecting my HID input devices?

[Dirk]

Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Dirk <noisyb at gmx.net> wrote:
>> some people are quite happy with only 1 hardware abstraction layer (the
>> kernel)... but now they managed to snuck their crap into distributions
>> as dependency(!) and i'm frustrated enough about that to make an ass of
>> myself here if it helps in demotivating them.. :)
> 
> Sure, I feel your pain. Back then it was enough to bring a shoe box
> full of punchcards, now they've added a monitor and a keyboard as
> dependencies(!).
> 
> It's called progress. And while we're at it, HAL will eventually be
> phased out in favor of udev (merged with DeviceKit). I hope you don't
> hate udev too (no, static /dev/ is not going to work in the age of
> dynamic device majors in kernel).
> 
> ;)
> 

i use udev because, unlike hal, it works and the sovereignty it takes 
from me isn't missed...

when udev+devicekit won't interfere with random things i wan't to do it 
would be indeed progress...