[arch-general] HAL .fdi files stopped working

After an upgrade in the beginning of summer (don't remember what was updated) my hal fdi files in /etc/hal/fdi/policy stopped working, I had to change the keyboard mapping in the xfce settings and haven't been able to use my joypad since. I can't find anything on it with google and I've upgraded my system a couple of times since, but it still isn't working. Anybody who knows what might cause this?