Comment 24 for bug 271138

First I marked both as duplicates now, since they clearly describe the same effect, but on second look that might not actually be true (see below).

It would be interesting to compare /var/log/Xorg.0.log from a gdm which has no input devices and the followup gdm where things work. Can folks who experience this please attach both versions?

Some interesting things: In Ted's log in bug 276857 (http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18137667/Xorg.0.log.nohal) hal does not seem to have started up fully:

  EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: (null) ((null))

and there is no attempt at all to load evdev.

In Joshua's log (http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18409850/Xorg.0.log), hal *does* seem to work, but evdev fails to load:

  (II) config/hal: Adding input device Macintosh mouse button emulation
(II) LoadModule: "evdev"

(WW) Warning, couldn't open module evdev
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(EE) Failed to load module "evdev" (module does not exist, 0)

Joshua, when you restart X, do you still get messages like this? Do you have xserver-xorg-input-evdev installed, and /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so exists?