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A big reason I've been holding off a total switch is the support for wheels and force feedback in linux. I currently have mint installed, and between trying to get assetto corsa with content manager working, and getting the wheel calibrated, it's a struggle. I have a Driving Force GT. I can see the wheel and inputs in the joystick menu, but the force feedback and degrees of turn are all messed up. There's some resources online but I thought maybe someone here has direct experience. Any assistance appreciated. I'd love to kick windows to the curb entirely !

Does running the driver in wine work, or will that not work at all with external devices? The driver itself is buggy as I recall having to do registry edits in windows to make it work a few years ago.

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[–] DesolateMood@lemm.ee 20 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

As far as I know, no wheels are natively supported on Linux (running the windows driver in wine doesn't work) and we have to rely on community made drivers for ffb. It seems like your wheel does have community support, just follow the instructions and you should be good to go. You can also fine tune your wheel with Oversteer

[–] Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 hour ago

I have a Thrustmaster T150 and it worked great with a community made driver

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah my Logitech G29 works great with Oversteer.

[–] applemao@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Wonderful, hopefully I can get this working!