How to calibrate a driving wheel

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I’m running Xubuntu 24.04. I don’t often use my driving wheel, but I pulled it out yesterday, and found it was listing left. SuperTuxKart was sluggish turning right and drifted left when the wheel was centered.

In Windows of course there’s a utility in Control Panel to calibrate game controllers like joysticks and driving wheels, but I’m not finding anything in Xubuntu. Is there something I can use? I installed Oversteer from Flatpak, but apparently it doesn’t support my driving wheel. It’s a Genius Twinwheel F1.

Driving Wheel

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The next day (and the next), I had the wheel plugged in on startup and it’s centered properly, everything good it seems.

Just the same, it would be nice to know of a way to calibrate game controllers on Linux.

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The packages ‘jstest-gtk’ and ‘joystick’ should be just what you need. The former is a graphical tool to test and calibrate various kinds of controllers while the latter can be used to store and restore the changes in calibration you made.

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Brilliant, jstest-gtk looks like just the sort of calibration utility I’d been hoping for. Thanks for pointing me to it.

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