Do you really need to know BEFORE the player starts up?

Yep... as I check for the presence of a tuner to determine whether the empeg is in the car or running from mains power (my empeg's power socket is faulty and believes it is always on mains power)

I need to detect this before the player starts so I can override the power setting and make the player believe it is in the car and not blast my ears out with the wrong volume setting.

A useful extension might be to pull out the tuner ID and allow ;@ID1, ;@ID2 conditionals in your config.ini processing so those with multiple tuners/locations could run different things depending on where the empeg finds itself.

As for it being needed in /proc, the ID could be useful... but I would probably just use the value within the kernel to override the power state...

What would be excellent for me would be:

[hijack]
;@ID1 force_dc=1

Or something like that... Hope that makes sense..

Maybe at some point I will get the courage up to take to the empeg with a soldering iron and won't have this issue any more...

Cheers,

Kim