I prefer booting into text mode, so I gave up on that idea. It's not a big deal, I wonder if I should mark this solved since the question is, can it be done with chmod and the answer seems to be no.
I use -current for the newer Japanese input method--I got lucky for several days before I got the cannot resolve this (in my case, I think it was glib2) and didn't have to build from ports for awhile.
At this point in time, I'm just playing with OpenBSD on this laptop. Ironically, as it's usually the opposite, FreeBSD-CURRENT (with drm-next-kmod) actually runs better. To be honest, when using it for work, I use Linux as neither *BSD comes close to its wireless speed.
(Work is running a browser, openvpn and a few terminals to my workstation at work)
None of which means I don't GREATLY appreciate everyone's advice.