Mouse Hotplug

[Andrew Zbikowski]

A question for the greater gurus...

I've got a USB keyboard and mouse that run through a Belkin SOHO KVM
(USB version). I switch between a Windows box, a Mac OS X box, and my
Ubuntu Linux box.

When the KVM switches, it's actually connecting and disconnecting the
USB devices. Windows makes it's hardware connected/disconnected noise,
under Linux the results of hotplug display on the message console,
etc.

On Windows and the Mac, when I switch, the keyboard and mouse are
detected quickly and ready to use. When I switch to Linux however, it
takes an annoyingly long time before my mouse is working in X again.
(I'd say 30+ seconds, I have yet to actually time it.). The keyboard
on the other hand is quick…about the same as on the Windows and Mac
boxes.

The question is, is there any way I can get Linux to hotplug my mouse
quicker? Maybe if I manually loaded the HID mouse related modules at
boot? Any other ideas?

(This isn't a unique to Ubuntu thing. I had the same issue on Fedora
Core 1 and Debian Sarge. It doesn't bother me that much, but I would
be very happy if I didn't have to wait for my rodent all the time.)

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