HAL not detecting my HID input devices?

[Roderich Schupp]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Tomas Lund <tlund at nxs.se> 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!?

Do you have the evdev input driver (Debian package "xserver-xorg-input-evdev")
installed (or just the legacy xserver-xorg-input-{kbd,mouse} drivers)?
AFAIK, only the evdev driver comes with the necessary fdi file for HAL
(/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-x11-evdev.fdi).

Cheers, Roderich