Description of problem: As discussed there http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-November/030223.html The new xorg requires linking to hal and udev for input to work xorg-x11-server-common-1.4.99.1-0.10.fc9.x86_64
This is done as of xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.1-0.19.20080107.fc9. Whether it works or not is another matter.
It works (modulo upstream quirks). Thank you very much.