I'd also like to take care of this. Specifically, I'd like to add USB mouse support too. It looks like the KNOPPIX bootup script automagically detects the USB mouse (in my case a Microsoft IntelliMouse), but the correct mouse device doesn't seem to carry over into the X session...

Unless someone else has any ideas, I'm going to write a little script that uses the automagically detected settings to start X with the correct screen resolution and color depth, as well as the correct keyboard and mouse drivers.