On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 09:48:14AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> I seem to have been experiencing the same symptoms as described in #467040
> since the last squeeze upgrade done on 2009-12-31, which may be coupled with
> my kernel upgrade from 2.6.30.8 to 2.6.32 on 2009-12-14.
>
> I've determined that I need to stop the hal daemon (with /etc/init.d/hal stop)
> and add Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" into the ServerFlags in xorg.conf,
> and that restores the keyboard to a working state.
>
> If I just keep the AllowEmptyInput option and start X with the hal daemon
> running, I can reproduce the problem. If I start hal again in the middle of
> the X session, and then immediately stop it again, the problem reappears and
> persists even though hal is not there. Eric, can you try that too?
>
> It's also messing with the mouse, some button clicks are ignored/duplicated.
Hmm. This might actually have been solved in the meantime, because I now
just removed AllowEmptyInput and restarted X with hal, and it works just
fine. I tried rebooting, and it keeps working.
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