On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:08:22 +0530 Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > USB mice have worked without hal for a long time. It's just > > hotplugging that won't work. > > > > Well, I recently copied /etc/group.pacnew to /etc/group which didn't > have the hal and gdm groups. > HAL didn't start, and when I started KDE (xinit startkde) or GDM or > KDM, neither keyboard nor mouse worked. After adding hal group, it > worked fine, since HAL started succesfully. > But did you put it in your xorg.conf file?
