Synaptics touchpad driver "addendum"

[michael]

"also when these options are enabled, the mouse is completely dead, but 
a usb mouse will work"
after following this from pkg-message:  the touchpad is not detected,
and is still listed as just a mouse in the Xorg log. anyone getting
something similar to this?
machine is a HP DV2000, exact model is dv2225nr.
default generic kernel from 7.0-Release.
nvidia driver, ndis, are the only additions.

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o Add boot time tunable to /boot/loader.conf.
  Set hw.psm.synaptics_support=1 and shutdown -r now!

/boot/loader.conf ---------------------------------
hw.psm.synaptics_support=1
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o Don't run moused(8) daemon.
  Dont' set moused_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf.

/etc/rc.conf --------------------------------------
moused_enable="NO"
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