Slightly better failure diagnostic

diff --git a/aplay/aplay.c b/aplay/aplay.c
index c24fa56ac9b2295bbab9857cc8985492dfd26e69..9f3aa672cc352d519cfc34cd7bffeaf1a32050bd 100644 (file)
--- a/aplay/aplay.c
+++ b/aplay/aplay.c
@@ -808,7 +808,7 @@ static void set_params(void)
        params.frames_fill_max = 1024;
        params.frames_xrun_max = 0;
        if (snd_pcm_params(handle, &params) < 0) {
-               fprintf(stderr, "%s: unable to set params\n", command);
+               fprintf(stderr, "%s: unable to set params (where=%x, why=%x)\n", command, params.fail_mask, params.fail_reason);
                exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
        }
        if (mmap_flag) {