Comment 43 for bug 282387

Weird, it worked for me and I've been using it for a week now, but when I tried it on another computer it didn't apply.
I patched it manually and made a diff, so here it is. See if this works for you.
This is diffed against xserver-xorg-input-evdev_2.0.99+git20080912-0ubuntu5 and contains the code of both of the above diffs. I patched with patch -p1 < preinit.diff, configured, compiled and installed flawlessly.