Yes I got this working... very hackish though... and I no longer use it as I replaced my power socket on my empeg when I had to replace the fuse that blew and sent my display haywire...
What I had working was a patch to the kernel that tried to initialise the tuner and if it got a response over-rode the sensed power source to believe it was in the car... I was aiming to get it to the point where it could give the value of the tuner ID over a /proc entry... but then not needing the patch after replacing the socket and running completely out of time to work on anything empeg it all took a back shelf...
I am currently in the process of packing my life into boxes to head on a plane to the UK as of Monday for a year or so... as I don't have a job lined up to start immediately I get there I might get more time to work on the tuner detection patch and the kernel exec patch again in between looking for contracting work over there...
Until then you are welcome to play with what I had... believe my web pages at my last job are still accessible and probably will be for a while knowing them...
http://www.ned.dem.csiro.au/CovilKim/empeg/
All work in progress and all not having been touched for a while... Hopefully I can get back to it all in the not too distant future...
Cheers
Kim