Force Feedback steering wheel

Hi to all,
I don't know if it is the correct place to post, but I would like to buy a new steering wheel to play with Grand Prix Legends (and its mods) under wine.
My current steering wheel has two issue:
1) it has combined pedals (accelerator and brake use the same axis, so if you press the at the same time the output is zero and you cant brake and at the same time use the accelerator to maintain high engine RPM using the cluth which, hower, is not present and I've to command with a button)
2) it has no force feedback.
So I would like to buy a new one with these non combined pedals and force feedback. Obviously it must work in my arch linux 64 bit system using wine (maybe in the future I may also start playing with the native vdrift).
So before buying anew device I would like to know if:
1) anybody play with racing games and can help me finding a working device;
2) anybody play with Grand Prix Legends under wine with a Force Feedback Steering Wheel;
3) this package (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=50236) is needed to use force feedback. I suppose it will install a library, but I don't know if it will be usable also from a 32 bit program (wine) running in my 64 bit system. Does anybody have experience on that?
Thank you,
Xwang

Hi Teemu,
Like Paul or Sean suggested, using directX, win API, or DLL calls can all provide a solution to your problem.
I would suggest looking at http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/CA411647F224787B86256DD000669EFE?OpenDocument for some more information on reading the joystick/gamepad. To send the force feedback, I would suggest trying to find some more information on the driver provided with Logitech device (maybe searching on google forums) and then calling the functions in LV.
If you end up using the dll's then you can use DependencyWalker (not an NI utility) to get the function names in that dll and then probably searching web on those function names.
You are working on a cool application and maybe you are the first one doing it, so do post the solution in the end.
Regards,
Ankita
NI

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