Driver will no longer load for T128 Wheel (previously worked) - Linux Mint

[parallax78]

Hi,

I am reasonably new to linux and Github, so please forgive me if I am not including enough information. I am having an issue with hid-tmff2 / Mint OS not detecting my T128 wheel correctly after a reboot.

I installed hid-tmff2 a few days ago (via DKMS), along with the Oversteer application, and after they installed, the system detected my wheel and worked perfectly. However, after powering up my PC the next morning, it no longer detects it and Mint OS loads it as a 'Generic X-Box Pad'. I installed no updates via the OS system manager, in case that has disrupted anything.

Can anyone help me determine what the issue could be?

dkms status shows the following:

hid-tmff2/0.82, 6.14.0-28-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia/575.64.03, 6.14.0-27-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia/575.64.03, 6.14.0-28-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia/575.64.03, 6.8.0-78-generic, x86_64: installed

When I run sudo dmesg -w and monitor the wheel when it is plugged in, it shows as a generic X-Box Pad, with no mention of hid-tmff2 and instead loads xhci_hcd. Previously, it showed as 'Thrustmaster Advanced Racer'

[ 6929.682080] usb 1-8.2: USB disconnect, device number 6
[ 7111.891029] usb 1-8.2: new full-speed USB device number 10 using xhci_hcd
[ 7112.198989] usb 1-8.2: New USB device found, idVendor=044f, idProduct=b69c, bcdDevice= 1.01
[ 7112.198997] usb 1-8.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 7112.198998] usb 1-8.2: Product: Thrustmaster T128X GIP Racing Wheel
[ 7112.198999] usb 1-8.2: Manufacturer: Thrustmaster
[ 7112.199001] usb 1-8.2: SerialNumber: 0000373426046C60
[ 7112.220143] input: Generic X-Box pad as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/0000:03:00.0/0000:04:0c.0/0000:09:00.0/usb1/1-8/1-8.2/1-8.2:1.0/input/input17

Oversteer reports no devices available, but previously showed it as 'Thrustmaster Advanced Racer':

I have attempted to remove/purge & re-install the driver several times, uninstall/re-install Oversteer and also used the blacklist command below, but with no success.

echo 'blacklist hid_thrustmaster' | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/hid_thrustmaster.conf

System info:

Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon
Cinnamon Version - 6.4.8
Linux Kernel - 6.14.0-28-generic

[Kimplul]

Hi, I suspect this might be related to #169 (comment). Seems to be because of commit paroj/xpad@0e6a710, which causes the xpad module to be picked for the wheel over this module. I guess the change is only now trickling down to different distributions. The suggested fix (mentioned in the other thread but copied here for convenience) for now is to create a file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-xpad.conf with the content blacklist xpad, try it out and let's see what happens.

You included plenty of detail, it was very nice to see :) No need to beg for forgiveness, I don't expect people to have perfect knowledge of what is/is not relevant in any given situation.

[charlesmckee47]

Hi, I suspect this might be related to #169 (comment). Seems to be because of commit paroj/xpad@0e6a710, which causes the xpad module to be picked for the wheel over this module. I guess the change is only now trickling down to different distributions. The suggested fix (mentioned in the other thread but copied here for convenience) for now is to create a file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-xpad.conf with the content blacklist xpad, try it out and let's see what happens.

You included plenty of detail, it was very nice to see :) No need to beg for forgiveness, I don't expect people to have perfect knowledge of what is/is not relevant in any given situation.

Hey do you know a way to blacklist the thrustmaster t128 without blacklisting all Xbox controllers on USB

[Kimplul]

@charlesmckee47 No, sorry. xpad just has a list of devices it wants to take control of, there's no way to single out 'except this one' that I'm aware of. Presumably an issue should be raised over in the xpad project, I don't have a T128 myself so I can't really test any patches unfortunately.

[Kimplul]

Slight correction: There is an issue open, see paroj/xpad#317, but it seemingly hasn't received much attention.

[AlanU]

I added a comment to the xpad 317 that might help other with T128 xpad issues