What I need to do is be able to set force_dc based on the presence of the tuner before the player starts... as number6 said and I said before this would be easiest to use if it was available as a conditional in the config.ini...

Something like

;@ID=3 force_dc=1

which would change the dc variable in kernel on startup (before the player starts) so when the player reads /proc/empeg_power it thinks it is on DC.

Thanks for this... will help me not have to recompile a new kernel and rebuild the secondary partition every time a new release comes out to work around the hardware fault in my empeg.

Cheers

Kim