Hi Dimitry and Gerhard,

first of all i apologise but I really was/am in panic... as I said,
this is my production laptop, the small little toy in front of which I
spend some ~10 hours a day!

I have spent quite a few days to learn the fundamentals of o'bsd on a
crashbox (this one, an ibm t43p) and was very happy with the result; I
even bought the absolute book and read quite a few chapters...

I cannot afford to have a non-functional (I know this is an
exaggerated statement) production laptop for longer than, say, a few
hours. As a matter of fact I am reinstalling GNU/Linux right now
because I HAVE to work this evening (the installation and set up takes
~20 min)

Anyway...

1- Why should I give gcc the path to io.h? (and where is it, btw, a
locate will be random in my case because I do not know what io.h is)
In GNU/Linux I don't have to do it and seemingly the folks of
FreeBSD/NetBSD neither. Does it depend on the gcc version?

2- Another BIG problem for me is that apm does not work. I NEED apm
-S. Again, this is an exaggerated statement but I am used to suspend
to RAM the laptop some ~5 times a day because I have to run from one
office to another because there's a meeting or whatever

I am really disappointed. I was looking so much forward to moving to o'bsd...

And the main problem is that I love my laptop: 1280x768 on a 10.2"
crispy screen (I use an external screen in the office but for the
train, cafe etc it's perfect), 80GB disk, 1GB RAM, doesn't get hot,
1.2 kg (!!)

I really cannot make it without that little thing and I WANT o'bsd on
it but as I said some 3 weeks ago

1- I need wlan connection (guess it'll work just as it's working on
this one, same chipset)
2- I need the full screen resolution
3- I need apm working

If you guys say it's going to work and it was a mere problem of
compilation I'll sure give it a second try for the resolution... but
what do you say regarding apm???

This is the FreeBSD site where you can find the patch (sorry about
that, I didn't know)

http://www.jail.se/p7010.html

--> http://www.jail.se/p7010/1280patch-845g-855gm-865g.c


> This might be due to you using it incorrectly, since it works fine for
> quite a lot of people. :)  In cases like this, always post the *exact*
> command line and options that you tried, and include *complete* logs of
> any error messages.

yes, you're right, I was too nervous, sorry

But I don't think it was my problem. I know 915resolution and have
used it with GNU/Linux without a worry...

I am a o'bsd n00b but not a GNU/Linux newbie :)

Thanks in any case for your quick fedback and sorry about the
hysterical reaction...
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