HAL not detecting my HID input devices?

[Dirk]

Tomas Lund wrote:
> 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
> 
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add these lines to you /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "ServerFlags"
     Option      "AutoAddDevices"    "false"
         Option "DontZap" "off"
EndSection

and de-install hal with "dpkg --force-all --purge hal" after every update...

it will give you the linux you had before hal..