HAL not detecting my HID input devices?

[Dirk]

Tomas Lund wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Dirk wrote:
> 
>> 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..
> 
> I am not interested in having the linux i had before hal. I even wrote 
> that in the text you quoted, "[..] I would like to use HAL instead [..]"
> 
> However, I expect the new kernel with evdev-support will indeed solve my 
> problems.
> 
> Best regards,
> Tomas
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hal turns linux into a windows, reinvented badly