[SOLVED] Is there a way to use Debian xorg without libinput?

[Meow]

As Wayland is still experimental WIP, it introduces issues and problems because of the inclusion of libinput and other buggy stuff.

Is there a way to custom-build Debian xorg with traditional xorg, not contaminated with wayland stuff?
Or, are there alternative xorg packages without libinput, so I do not need to manually fix libinput after I updated/upgraded the system?

[bw123]

It's not necessary to rebuild anything. All you have to do is install another pkg that provides xorg-driver-input, then remove xserver-xorg-input-all and xserver-xorg-input-libinput

Then you have no libinput at all, so no contamination.

p.s. on stretch this works

[Segfault]

For sake of truth, libinput itself does not depend on Wayland. It works just fine with plain Xorg. Unless it is built with Wayland as dependency, that is.

[Meow]

Guys, thank you very much!
You led me on the right path!

On Buster, the solution to these libinput problems was:

1. make sure libinput cannot get loaded anymore:

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# apt purge xserver-xorg-input-libinput
# apt install xserver-xorg-input-evdev

2. creating a /etc/X11/xorg.conf containing this, to make sure that evdev replaces libinput completely and correctly:

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Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "evdev keyboard defaults"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev pointer catchall"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Now the problems caused by libinput are gone