Starting Keyboard Driver with SLiM?

I use a Logitech G510 keyboard. When Arch starts up, the drivers for it to support the LCD and Macros starts as well. (from here)
If I log out to SLiM however, the drivers stop completely, rendiner the keyboard unusable to until I reseat it, at which point in time just the normal Arch keyboard drivers take over (no LCD support, etc, but keyboard is usable.)
What I'm wondering is if there is a way to get either the standard drivers (not sure what they are) or these G15 drivers to start when SLiM starts?

alphaniner wrote:How are the drivers loaded now? Do they require X to be running? Is there some reason they can't be loaded automatically with modules-load.d?
As far as I can tell when I looked at the website for the driver, it -seems- to be a X app running in the background. That could be the issue, its window would get terminated whenever he logged out and slim resumed, and could cause the driver to lock up. I can do some research on their page, there might be a module for it he can load.
Could you tell me exactly how you are loading the driver?
Last edited by Multimoon (2013-08-12 14:11:35)

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