Hi, I just ran into this after upgrading a sid system. The X server was not upgraded, but hal and udev were, and when I restarted the X server (I needed to restart kdm) the keyboard and the mouse stopped working. It did appear to be a hal problem, so I disabled AutoAddDevices in xorg.conf, which eliminated the problem temporarily. And then I found this bug report and rebooted, which got rid of it permanently.
I have before/after lshal output dumps that I can provide if you think they're useful. Also, the problem might be further down the stack indeed, as when I was rebooting I saw messages like "failed - is udev active?" (when laptop mode was stopping). Thanks, Vasilis -- Vasilis Vasaitis "A man is well or woe as he thinks himself so." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org