Works great! T128 on SteamOS with DKMS

[iliana]

Hey, wanted to reach out and say thanks for this! I wanted to post some "it works in this environment" notes to help maintainers out.

I've integrated this module (via DKMS) into my SteamOS image repacking setup and it works out-of-the-box with American Truck Simulator. This is particularly exciting because I bought a used T128 before even looking up the Linux support situation, so I'm quite happy :)

Notes:

• Thrustmaster T128
• SteamOS 3.5.19 on non-Deck hardware
• hid-tmff2 @ 542f3f0, using DKMS installation
• ATS 1.51.2.3
• ATS apparently has a native Linux build; the wheel has a really terrible deadzone in the native build (probably about 30-45° either direction from center), but forcing it to use the Windows build with Proton Experimental removes the deadzone entirely
• Force feedback works great running under Proton Experimental; did not need to install the TM drivers in the Wine prefix. (It looks like the game ships its own drivers for TM wheels?)
• If you are building patched kernels for SteamOS, don't build them on a newer Arch toolchain or you'll be missing compiler symbols when you want to add out-of-tree modules! Learned this the hard way...

[Kimplul]

Cheers! Always nice to see things working, I mostly get informed about things that are broken in some way.

There have been some reports that some wheels don't seem to send out input under Steam, #118 at least is also running SteamOS but on a deck. Consider this a warning, I suppose :) Of course, any and all help figuring it out is greatly appreciated.