NetScroll+ Optical ps/2 mouse worked in 4.7 but not in 5.1

My Genius NetScroll+ PS/2 optical mouse was working fine in the console, and in KDE, with FreeBSD 4.7, but is working erratically in the newly installed FreeBSD 5.1 console, and on the new KDE 3.1 Desktop. During installation of 5.1, with port as /dev/psm0, protocol as 'auto', and while testing

NetScroll+ ps/2 optical mouse fixed in FreeBSD 5.1

I fixed yesterday's mouse problem, sort of, by adding the line hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 to the file /boot/device.hints I'm not sure why that worked, but the problem apparently only affects the 5.x kernel with some VIA chipsets. Thanks. ___ [EMAIL