please for our sanity and your safety, don't ask anymore about this issue:) if you want to switch to the visual mode, just hold the bottom button in for about 3 seconds after the player starts playing music and it will switch itself to the last used display mode (which in your case would be line mode). the kernel hack is an option, but after a few times, it really just becomes habit to push the button after you start the car. i don't even realize that i am doing it now.

jeremy

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