fdi file is a hal policy file that tells hal to tell Xorg about your
tablet you just plugged in. its located at
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/10-wacom.fdi

You had the X configured in Hardy and you did a dist-upgrade? That means
you have done this before and you had a working X configuration from
there. It should be usable with minimal change. Without knowing what
went wrong its hard to help you. You said you can restore your backup X
conf from command line. From command line you can also see the X log to
know what is wrong. to see run:

tail -f /var/log/Xorg.0.log

And see the lines at the end of the output marked (EE). They should
point you in the right direction.

Its easy to hose your X with changing a conf file simply because it is a
conf file and because of that, a single tiny mistake can make X unable
to function with it. It has always been the same, hotplug or no hotplug.

To make it clear, the hotplug capacity ONLY kicks in if you plug in your
tablet AFTER you have started X. It does nothing for tabletPC-s and you
wont be bothered by it if your tablet is connected at all times. So you
can have the fdi file that the this bug is about without any
inconvenience.

Theres only one place where having both X conf and the hotplug fdi file
is troublesome, and thats the wacom drivers workaround for hotplug. I
you had the tablet at startup, unpluged and repluged it then now
changing virtual terminals wont restore the full functionality for you
because hotplug grabs the device, you need to restart x with your tablet
already connected to avoid that.

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Wacom tablet hotplug is no longer enabled by default
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282203
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