Disable Autoplugging

in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

enter the following in the serverflags section:

Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"


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another solution from http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2009-February/013001.html

This would indeed solve my problem. As i now found a partial solution
(see below) i am going just to wait for the next ubuntu release.

My solution:

kdb is not configured by hal but by xorg.conf, but Xorg is still using
hal for other devices:
I add the kbd driver via keyboard section to /etc/X11/xorg.conf but do
_not_ set 'Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"' in the ServerLayout
section. In addition i create a
file /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11-input.fdi with the following content
(some lines wrapped)





keyboard

evdev

key="input.product">


key="input.product">






This way, evdev is not used for the keyboard (and the omnibook driver),
and it seems that Xorg falls back to xorg.conf for the keyboard. Well,
it works! ;-)

Regards,
Henning