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On 7 Nov 2012, at 08:20, Warren Block wrote:

> It's not saying that hald is run by default, merely that xorg-server =
will try to use it by default.

And will fail to detect any input devices if hald is not running, but =
will correctly detect them if the X server is compiled without HAL =
support.  Please can we fix the defaults for xorg-server to do the =
sensible thing?

David=