[Voyage-linux] mpd warnings about "config option was not recognized" when options are valid

[Punky Tse]

Hi Mark,

Please show me mpd version by "mpd --version"

On 9/15/2012 4:02 PM, Mark Schlegel wrote:
>
> I'm using Voyage 0.8.5 fully updated to today (9/15/2012) and each 
> time I boot Voyage mpd, I see a group of warnings in 
> /var/log/mpd/mpd.log that don't make sense to me:
>
> Sep 15 07:49 : config: option 'mixer_device' on line 206 was not 
> recognized
> Sep 15 07:49 : config: option 'mixer_control' on line 207 was not 
> recognized
> Sep 15 07:49 : config: option 'mixer_index' on line 208 was not 
> recognized
>
> When I check those lines (206-208) in /etc/mpd.conf I have:
>
>         mixer_device    "default"       # optional
>         mixer_control   "PCM"           # optional
>         mixer_index     "0"             # optional
>
> which to me looks like completely correct values for those options. So 
> why is mpd complaining about those. BTW, the mpd is working so it's 
> nothing fatal, I just like to have the system working correctly.
>
> the entire stanza is for this audio_output:
>
> audio_output {
>         type            "alsa"
> #       name            "My ALSA Device"
>         name            "Stello DAC sw mixer"
>         device          "hw:0,0"        # optional
> #       format          "44100:16:2"    # optional
>         mixer_device    "default"       # optional
>         mixer_control   "PCM"           # optional
>         mixer_index     "0"             # optional
>         # allow volume to change remotely via mixer_type
>         mixer_type      "software"
> }
>
> Since all three of those are the default settings I suppose I could 
> remove them but I was wanting them shown explicitly. Does mpd have 
> some problem with the default value being set redundantly like this?  
> Maybe "was not recognized" is kind of the programmer's dumb way of 
> really meaning that the setting had no effect because it was already 
> the default?
>
>
>
> Mark
>
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