usbquirks in grub.conf on RHEL-5?

[Pat Riehecky]

IMHO,  http://www.mythbuntu.org/downloads is a better choice for a HTPC,
but on to questions and answers:

I personally haven't found any reason to explore the usbquirks world on
RHEL5.  Perhaps it is just I have non-quirky hardware, but if it works
without the quirk option I would simply remove it.

Pat

On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 17:48 +1000, David Hobley wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> I am building a HTPC and was recommended RHEL by a Systems Administrator friend. I am almost there, but current getting stuck with trying to get my Imon VFD device working; following a HOWTO for other Linux distributions I apparently need to specify the following in my /etc/grub.conf file: 
> 
> (all on one line, before the mail client wraps it) 
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 ro rhgb quiet usbhid.quirks=0x15c2:0x0036:0x4 
> 
> However, when I do that and reboot, I get the following error in /var/log/messages 
> 
> May 14 12:26:51 htpc kernel: Kernel command line: root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 ro rhgb quiet usbhid.quirks=0x15c2:0x0036:0x4 
> May 14 12:26:51 htpc kernel: Unknown boot option `usbhid.quirks=0x15c2:0x0036:0x4': ignoring 
> 
> Is usbhid.quirks supported in RHEL-5? Is there some other magic I need to know? 
> 
> Cheers, 
> David