From 3324bba77f85cdc7315806638a3fc5586a5b9e95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:15:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added an error message for when ALSA audio fails

---
 src/audio/alsa/SDL_alsa_audio.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/audio/alsa/SDL_alsa_audio.c b/src/audio/alsa/SDL_alsa_audio.c
index 5bf3ffeb2..540b319a3 100644
--- a/src/audio/alsa/SDL_alsa_audio.c
+++ b/src/audio/alsa/SDL_alsa_audio.c
@@ -314,8 +314,10 @@ static void ALSA_PlayAudio(_THIS)
 	while ( frames_left > 0 && this->enabled ) {
 		status = SDL_NAME(snd_pcm_writei)(pcm_handle, sample_buf, frames_left);
 		if ( status < 0 ) {
-			if ( SDL_NAME(snd_pcm_recover)(pcm_handle, status, 0) < 0 ) {
+			status = SDL_NAME(snd_pcm_recover)(pcm_handle, status, 0);
+			if ( status < 0 ) {
 				/* Hmm, not much we can do - abort */
+				fprintf(stderr, "ALSA write failed (unrecoverable): %s", SDL_NAME(snd_strerror)(status));
 				this->enabled = 0;
 				return;
 			}