Xorg 1.4 in experimental is supposed to have input device hotplugging.

Does anyone have a Howto for Debian? I tried it, but I couldn’t get it to hot-plug my USB mouse, so I’m back to using the regular mouse driver for it again, using the /dev/input/mice in-kernel-hack for hotplugging.

P.S. on a recent kernel, you might want to add

blacklist snd_pcsp

to a custom file in /etc/modutils/, in order to avoid your PC speaker showing up as regular audio device. You don’t want your regular apps to consider your legacy PC speaker as audio device usually.

P.S. No, my blog doesn’t have comments. Just send me an email (you know, ‘legacy’ email) via erich AT debian org.