HAL not detecting my HID input devices?

[Tomas Lund]

When X.org in Debian unstable switched to using HAL for detecting all 
HID-devices, my mouse and keyboard stoped working.

I quickling narrowed the problem down to the fact that HAL does not seem 
to find them. Setting AllowEmptyInput to false and adding back my old 
definitions to /etc/X11/xorg.conf works around this problem, but I would 
like to use HAL instead :)

According to the webpage at 
http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/InputHotplugGuide I am supposed to see 
my keyboard with "lshal | grep xkb" but I dont have any input devices at 
all!?

I am at a complete loss as to where to start looking. My computer is a 
Thinkpad T41 running Debian unstable under a custom 2.6.25 kernel. I dont 
have any external mouse/keyboard attached, its just the built in keyboard 
and trackpoint (touchpad disabled in BIOS)

The output of "/usr/sbin/hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes" and "lshal" are 
available at http://tlund.pp.se/hal/ Please let me know what other info 
you need to help me diagnose this problem and I will supply them.

Best regards,
Tomas Lund