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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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[–] zelmon64@programming.dev 2 points 2 hours ago
[–] septick@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Install new-lg4ff module driver.

[–] 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 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah my Logitech G29 works great with Oversteer.

[–] applemao@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Wonderful, hopefully I can get this working!

[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 8 points 14 hours ago

I'd also try asking on !simrallyracing@lemmy.world. Not the most active community, but still a fair number of subscribers who might have experience with this.

[–] mranderson17@infosec.pub 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

universal-pidff is working on support for many wheels. I believe they are also working on upstreaming.

Thrustmaster hid-tmff2 is a module that supports some common belt drive wheels. (I had a t300 but upgraded, see below)

OpenFFBoard is fully supported without any extra drivers/modules in Linux. Even the configurator is just python+qt and works fine (This is the wheel I use).

Running the drivers in wine won't work, or at least there is no benifit that I've seen. Oversteer provides some udev rules which improve logitech support, you should install that and reboot even if you don't plan to use it. The udev rules initialize the wheel correctly, set permissions on the sysfs components, etc. AFAIK the Logitech Driving Force GT is fully supported by the in-tree logitec driver link. Can you post more details about the issues you are having, maybe with screenshots?

EDIT: I forgot that oversteer recommends using new-lg4ff for most logi wheels. So definitely give that a try as others said.

Lastly there's sim community https://infosec.pub/c/diysimulators@discuss.tchncs.de (the creator of openffboard is the mod of that community) if you're interested. It doesn't see that much action but there's a little here and there.