Bug#524185: xserver-xorg - No keyboard/mouse after upgrade

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

notfound 524185 2:1.4.2-11
found 524185 2:1.6.0-1
tag 524185 unreproducible moreinfo
kthxbye

On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 13:07 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-core
> Version: 2:1.4.2-11
> Severity: grave

this is the version in squeeze, and doesn't use hal.

> After the upgrade to xorg 1.4, the x server wants to use hal to detect
> input devices regardless of the old config. This leads to unusable
> systems because there is no way out of an x server which does not find
> any keyboard. And the reasons for this seems to be not uncommon.
> 
> Nothing about that and the environmental requirements of this changes
> are documented at the usual location (NEWS.Debian).
> 
> On my old notebook it just writes log messages that it wants to disable
> all kdb and mouse device entries and starts without input devices.

please send
1) full X config
2) full X log
3) output of lshal
4) contents of /proc/bus/input/devices

thanks,
Julien