DISCLAMER This is not an official driver from Thrustmaster and is provided without any kind of warranty. Loading and using this driver is at your own risk; I don't take responsibility for kernel panics, devices bricked or any other kind of inconvenience
The driver is to be partially re-written as a hid driver instead of an usb driver.
- All axis and buttons of the wheel are reported¹
- You can set the range of the wheel from 270° to 1080°
- You can set the return force of the wheel from 0% to 100%
- Force feedback (partially)
- You can set the global force feedback scale from 0% to 100%
- Settable gain
FF_GAIN - Periodic effects:
FF_SINE,FF_SAW_UPandFF_SAW_DOWN - Constant effects:
FF_CONSTANT - Condition effects:
FF_SPRING - Damper effects:
FF_DAMPER
- Firmware version is reported
¹: Except for the shifter buttons, because I don't have the PRO version. However, I've guessed the clutch axis.
- Reading the settings from the wheel
- Force feedback (partially)
- Force feedback settings
- Firmware upgrades
Always put the switch of your wheel to the PS3 position before plug it into your machine!
When attached to your machine the wheel reports itself as Thrustmaster FFB Wheel, in this mode not all functionalities
are available. In order to switch to the Thrustmaster T150RS we have to send the following USB control packet to the
wheel:
| bRequestType | bRequest | wValue | wIndex | wLength |
|---|---|---|---|---|
0x41 |
83 |
0x0006 |
0 |
0 |
To do so we can use the hid-tminit driver (See the install section, if you use the install script it should do it automatically) xor you can write a simple userspace applications like this one thanks to libusb.
When the wheel receives the control packet it will reset and re-appear in the system as a T150.
You can edit the settings of each wheel attached to the machine by writing the sysfs attributes usually found in the
subdirectories at /sys/devices. You can see in dmesg what path in /sys the input subsystem assigned to the wheel:
for example if you see input: Thrustmaster T150 steering wheel as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1/input/input27
then the attributes will be located at sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1/input/input27/device/.
This table contains a summary of each attribute
| Attribute | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
range |
decimal from 270 to 1080 |
How far the wheel turns |
autocenter |
decimal from 0 to 100 |
The force used to re-center the wheel |
enable_autocenter |
boolean y xor n |
Use the user defined return force or let the game handle it trough ffb |
gain |
decimal from 0 to 100 |
Force feedback intensity. 0 no effects are reproduced |
firmware_version |
decimal | Read only, the current firmware running on the wheel |
You can try to run install.sh as root, the script should: copy the udev rules and other files in their appropiate positions, build and install the DKMS modules and add them to the list of modules to be loaded at boot.
To check if the modules are loaded check the output of lsmod | grep t150 and lsmod | grep hid-tminit.
Copy the udev rules into /etc/udev/rules.d/ and reload the udev rules (or reboot)...
For a simple build: install all the required tools to compile (like build-essential, linux-headers etc...) and run
make
into the t150 and hid-tminit folders. Now you can load the .ko files with insmod and unload them with rmmod