Closing, this is supposed to work with current dailys and is supposed to become 
part of the upcoming stable release. If you still notice any issues feel free 
to reopen.

thanks && regards,
-mika-

grml-x 0.6.0 is available through grml-testing and is supposed to address this 
issue (cudos and credits to Christian).

Please report back if grml-x works with current dailys as expected.

Oh well, the (no)joy of Xorg, I'll check out the libudev input-hotplug backend 
stuff WRT grml-x...

Thanks for reporting, downgrading priority though - this is a bug we have to 
investigate but it's not an urgent issue by definition (which would be 
security, data-loss,... issues).

regards,
-mika-

[ Note: I marked this as urgent, because X with no keyboard and mouse is *NO FUN* ]

Hi,

I tried grml-daily full sid/i386 from 2010-09-05 and today (20-Sep-2010).

In both ISOs, my input devices are not autoconfigured.
The touchpad of my IBM T40p notebooks works OOTB, but not the external Logitech
mouse and my keyboard.
I can't type in X (terminal), I can't click anything.

While digging into the problem, I saw a misconfiguration:

[ /etc/X11/xorg.conf ]
-        Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" # do not depend on running dbus/hal
+        Option "AutoAddDevices" "on" # Use udev input-hotpug backend to
configure input devices

...makes keyboard and external mouse work, again.

I was one of the first switching in a weekend IRC-session with Brice Goglin from
XSF (debian-x team) to the HAL input-hotplug backend in January 2009.
And to do a bit self-marketing:
I upgraded some parts of the InputHotplugGuide wiki in [1].
The xorg-xserver in Debian/sid (also squeeze) is using now the udev
input-hotplug backend.
Thanks to Julien Cristau as Upstream Maintainer and member of debian-x team.

Any reasons why you do not want to use input-hotplugging?

Kind Regards,
- Sedat -

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/InputHotplugGuide