Linux driver to properly initialize Thrustmaster Wheels, based on this driver written by Kimplul
When connected to the machine, the Thrustmaster wheels appear as
a «generic» hid gamepad called Thrustmaster FFB Wheel.
When in this mode not every functionality of the wheel, like the force feedback, are available. To enable all functionalities of a Thrustmaster wheel we have to send to it a specific USB CONTROL request with a code different for each wheel.
This driver tries to understand which model of Thrustmaster wheel the generic
Thrustmaster FFB Wheel really is and then sends the appropriate control code.
You can check the table of wheels supported in hid-tminit.c, they are stored in the array th_wheels_infos[]
This table may be outdated.
My new guess is the control packet with usb.setup.bRequest == 73, is suspiciously near the control packet used to switch the wheel mode and the response of the wheel seems to remain the same after the upgrade
| Model | Response | bytes +6, +7 |
|---|---|---|
| T150 (same both my and @Kimplul) | 0x49002100000006030000000000000000 | 0x0603 |
| T300 (@Kimplul) | 0x49000301010006021300000005010000 | 0x0602 |
| T300 (cap from Gitlab) | 0x49002100000006020000000000000000 | 0x0602 |
| T300 Ferrari Alcantara Edition | 0x49000200010004021300000005010000 | 0x0402 |
| TMX | 0x4700410000000704 | 0x0704 |
| T500 | 0x4700030000000200 | 0x0200 |