Ok, I guess I can add some more input on the issue.
I use Creative Soundblaster Extigy USB edition, on top of alsa-0.9.8.

arts works perfectly for me, unless -F or -S keys are specified with any 
values. Whenever one of those is present, sound gets distorted, then artsd 
crashes, and all the following attempts to autorestart it end up with I/O 
error, errno 17 = file exists.

Removing them from ~/.kde/share/config/kcmartsrc manually solved the issue
(thanks SadEagle@freenode)

Thou I don't seem to be able to find what affects those settings in Kconfig, 
and why they appear. And actually why wouldn't this work in the first place?

On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:35, Vladimir Lazarenko wrote:
> Gents,
>
> arts-HEAD, having slight problems upon startup with alsa-0.9.8
>
> Sound server fatal error:
> AudioSubSystem::handleIO: write failed
> len = 7524, can_write = 7526, errno = 17 (File exists)
> This might be a sound hardware/driver specific problem (see aRts FAQ)
>
> What could this be?

-- 
Best regards,
Vladimir Lazarenko
 
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