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Subject: NetScroll+ ps/2 optical mouse fixed in FreeBSD 5.1
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I fixed yesterday's mouse problem, sort of, by adding the line

hint.acpi.0.disabled=3D"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.