XIO: fatal IO error 35 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:53:52 +0100
"O. Hartmann" <ohartman at mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> On 03/26/11 14:48, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 01:44:52PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote:
> >> On 26.03.2011 11:55, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> >>> on 26/03/2011 11:10 O. Hartmann said the following:
> >>>> Updating ports and source of my FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT/amd64 host, equipted
> >>>> with a
> >>>> AMD/ATi HD4830 graphics board driven by X11 xf86-video-ati driver (which
> >>>> has
> >>>> been recently update as far as I saw),
> >>>> resulted this morning in an 'un-login-able' box.
> >>>>
> >>>> I see the xdm-login requester, but after successfully login, I see for a
> >>>> second
> >>>> the desktop (windowmaker), but X11 immediately dies and resets to the xdm
> >>>> requester again.
> >>>
> >>> Are you subscribed to our x11 list?  It's quite low volume.
> >>> Please see recent messages in its archive, perhaps they could help you.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello.
> >>
> >> No, I'm actually not subscribed to that list. Since the problem occured
> >> since yesterday's update out of the blue, I thought it could be more
> >> FreeBSD related than X11 related. But I will reply to the X11 list as
> >> well. I simply forgot in my desperate pain, sorry.
> >>
> > See
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2011-March/010737.html
> 
> 
> I downgraded the AMD/ATi driver to version xf86-video-ati-6.14.0_1, I 
> desperately need my boxes since I have to finish work.
> Three different types of AMD/ATi graphics cards out of the same product 
> class are not working with the new xf86-video-ati-6.14.1 and as the 
> above mentioned link suggests, the solution is well known. I was 
> wondering how this port could be so easily slipped into the repository ...
> 
> Since the patch Jun-uk Kim referred to is a GIT patch and it seems to 
> work, is there a 'simple' way without installing the GIT stuff from 
> ports to patch the defective port?
> 

Have you looked at the link?  The patch is trivial and can easily be
applied by hand.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn