Hi...

I'm rather stubborn and I've installed o'bsd with an only slice.

It remembers me when I took the decision of removing the windows
partition and only use linux... it has shown to really pay off. i've
learnt a lot. Now it's the turn for o'bsd

I have followed your advice, woodchuck and it compiles fine but it
doesn't want to run.

Logging as su and without X running I get

1280pgm 30 1280 768
Unable to open /dev/mem: Operation not permitted

This sounds like a security thing, maybe the securelevel

In any case, 915resolution is not working either:

Running it as root and without X:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
# 915resolution -l
Intel 800/900 Series VBIOS Hack : version 0.5.2

Unable to open the BIOS file: Operation not permitted
------------------------------------------------------------------------

I know that it must be added to /etc/rc.securelevel

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$ cat /etc/rc.securelevel
#       $OpenBSD: rc.securelevel,v 1.16 2004/07/06 04:05:03 deraadt Exp $
#
# site-specific startup actions, daemons, and other things which
# can be done BEFORE your system goes into securemode.  For actions
# which should be done AFTER your system has gone into securemode
# please see /etc/rc.local

# This is the desired security level
# XXX
# XXX it is not really acceptable to put this value in a configuration
# XXX file, because locking it down requires immutability on about
# XXX 5 files instead of 2 (the kernel and init)
# XXX

securelevel=1

echo -n 'starting pre-securelevel daemons:'

#
# Place local actions here.
#
# 915resolution

if [ -x /usr/local/sbin/915resolution ]; then
        echo -n ' 915resolution'
        /usr/local/sbin/915resolution 3d 1920 1440 > /dev/null


echo '.'
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

3d 1920 1440 is one mode I don't want to use; you have to overwrite
one of them like that
I "guessed" that one because I have a logbook from my experimentations
with the same laptop
and Linux + 915resolution. In linux it was working like that

any hint?

Cheers,

Pau

>
> Try compiling the code like this:
>
> cc -D__NetBSD__ -o 1280pgm  1280patch-845g-855gm-865g.c -li386
>
> that compiles without error,  It will produce an executable named
> "1280pgm".  Gods know what it will do when you run it, though.
>
> (OpenBSD is kinda-sorta like NetBSD.)
>
> See man i386_iopl before running it, about setting your sysctls
> properly.  (They probably are already set OK if you are running X).
>
> Let us know if smoke rises from your screen.
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