[arch-general] x hotplugging probs

[David Rosenstrauch]

Having major probs after the upgrade to the latest X w/hotplugging.

X starts, but keyboard and mouse are dead.  The wiki page is really 
vague - I'm not really sure what/how I'm supposed to configure to make 
this work.  It says I want to update the entries for things like 
input.xkb.layout, input.xkb.variant, input.xkb.rules, input.xkb.model, 
input.xkb.options, etc. in the 10-keymap.fdi file.  But update them to 
what?  I'm not sure what the values should be.  Also, that only explains 
keyboard.  Why isn't mouse working?

Xorg.0.log tells me:

(II) Cannot locate a core pointer device.
(II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device.
(II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices.
         If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable 
AllowEmptyInput.


I have these packages installed, and HAL running:

xf86-input-evdev 2.0.7-1
xf86-input-keyboard 1.3.1-1
xf86-input-mouse 1.3.0-1
xf86-video-ati 6.9.0-5
xf86-video-vesa 2.0.0-2


Also, I can't currently disable hotplugging, since I don't have an 
xorg.conf file.  (X has always been able to start fine without one; I 
believe it uses its own stock/internal one.)  Do I really need to go 
through the pain of generating a conf file just to get this turned 
off???  There's got to be SOME way to get this to work.

Help appreciated!

DR