Thanks for the info. I will take a look at the DC mode issues when I get home tomorrow. My player *definitely* works in the car in DC mode, to the tune of an 11 hour drive up here to visit my family. So I'm not even sure how I'll diagnose this one.

Actually maybe it'll help if I can get some more serial output. Can one of you who is having DC problems start in forced DC mode and run emphatic with the following:

emphatic --debug 5

That should at least (hopefully) tell us where it's crapping out.

Incidentally, why didn't you just use the install script? If you did the install steps properly then it doesn't matter, but were you scared of something in my script?