On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 21:08:11 -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > Dunno... Something in the hal <--> dbus <--> udev chain might be broken, > or maybe the mechanism Xserver uses to access what hal knows about isn't > quite right. Regardless, the workaround enables the desired/expected > Xserver behavior. > X doesn't use hal or dbus, and hasn't (in sid) since January 2010. Cheers, Julien