HAL not detecting my HID input devices?

[Patryk Zawadzki]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Pat Suwalski <pat at suwalski.net> wrote:
> Tomas Lund wrote:
>> Again, replying to my own post. :) With a new kernel, CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV
>> enabled, it works perfectly. Sorry for wasting everyones time and stiring
>> up the trolls.
> Actually, I had hoped to have a solution for my problem from your thread.
>
> I'm using the stock kernel, which I believe has evdev.

You can check that:

$ sudo modprobe configs
$ zcat /proc/config.gz| grep EVDEV
CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=m
CONFIG_USB_VIDEO_CLASS_INPUT_EVDEV=y

> When X starts up, I have no keyboard or mouse. If I plug in a USB
> keyboard it works fine and kickstarts the PS2 keyboard and USB mouse.

Did you try to compare the lshal output before and after it starts to work?

In particular:

$ hal-find-by-property --key input.x11_driver --string evdev

-- 
Patryk Zawadzki