[Voyage-linux] A couple of problems with voyage MPD

[jegunn]

I have recently installed Voyage MPD on an old mini-itx machine using a 
VIA C7 processor, as a music server for an Ayre QB9. I have the same 
problem as everyone else with the USB1 mode on the QB9, but it works fine 
with the USB2.0 mode with all material, so I am happy about that. I also 
confirm that it is NOT a Voyage problem; the same inability to properly 
get/set the sampling frequency occurs on machines running Ubuntu 10.04 and 
Fedora 13; Fedora 12 is even worse--dmesg runs away with recurring errors 
when the unit is plugged in. Seems likely that it is some Alsa-Ayre
inconsistency problem; the DAC was reported to work fine with various
Linux distros a year ago.

But I have a few questions.

1. I am running on an ordinary disk, not a cf, and I would like to be able 
to disable the final remounting of the root filesystem to read-only. I put 
remountrw in rc.local, but the final remounting of / in ro mode is done 
AFTER rc.local is executed, and I cannot find where. Can somebody tell 
me??

2. Much more serious, and there has not been a thread about this that I 
have been able to find, is that apt-get (or apt-cache) does not work for 
me. The contents of my sources.list file is

# /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib
# deb http://us.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free

Neither apt-get install nor apt-cache search can find ANYTHING (nor
could it with the original sources.list file with the tw ftp sites). I am
almost certainly doing something stupid, but I cannot figure out
what. I have been running Fedora, RH, and Ubuntu for years, but this
is my first foray into a genuine Debian distro, and I am doubtless
missing something. I tried an installation onto another machine, same 
result.

Can anybody advise?

TIA

--jim gunn