The following reply was made to PR kern/36871; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/36871: Starting X takes very long with kernel 4.99.30, worked
 with 4.99.4
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:40:51 +0200

 Greg Oster wrote:
 >  I think there is another PR open about this, but I don't recall the 
 >  number off-hand...  I do know that removing these two lines:
 >  
 >  pms*            at pckbc?               # PS/2 mouse for wsmouse
 >  wsmouse*        at pms? mux 0
 
 I'll try this.
 
 >  It's also the case that if you mash keys on the keyboard during the 
 >  "10 second pauses" that you can significantly reduce the pause...
 >  
 >  The issue came in with the addition of ACPI to GENERIC... for some 
 >  reason things can't distinguish between a PS/2 mouse and PS/2 
 >  keyboard, and so if you have a PS/2 keyboard the kernel is still 
 >  expecting to hear from a PS/2 mouse that isn't there... (In all cases 
 >  where I've seen this problem, the machine has a PS/2 keyboard but USB 
 >  mouse..)
 
 This really sounds like it would work for me. Everything you said above 
 applies to my configuration. :)
 
 Roland