PowerPC support - Githubissues

Rowan-Bird commented 3 years ago

Can you please make a PowerPC version because QEMU's awful mouse emulation is unbearable on Mac OS X 10.2

rocheston commented 3 years ago

I too want this. For Mac OS X 10.2. Please create a PowerPC version.

pmj commented 3 years ago

Have you tried building the existing code with an Xcode version which still contains a PPC compiler and SDK? Also, I've not run a PPC MacOSX for years, any pointers for getting me up and running with a test system as quickly as possible will increase the chances I'll end up giving this a go.

pmj commented 3 years ago

Incidentally, on x86 with modern macOS versions on vaguely recent Qemu versions, this driver is no longer needed, as I managed to get a patch that fixes Qemu's Tablet to be standards compliant and correctly driven by macOS's builtin driver. I'm guessing this isn't working correctly on PPC?

rocheston commented 3 years ago

Nope. I get this error Materials are missing....bla..bla.. when I execute the program in Mac OS X 10.2. Does not install. Guess PowerPC.

pmj commented 3 years ago

Is that when attempting to open the installer .pkg? If so, try manually placing the codeless kext in /System/Library/Extensions:

Download Build-1.2.zip from https://github.com/pmj/QemuUSBTablet-OSX/tree/master/build
Extract it
Install the kext, using something along the lines of: sudo cp -r Build-1.2/artefacts/QemuUSBTablet/System/Library/Extensions/QemuUSBTablet.kext /System/Library/Extensions/
Reboot

And see what happens. If it doesn't work, please provide:

Qemu command line used (especially the USB tablet part, but it's hard to say in advance what's relevant and what isn't, so to avoid being led on a wild goose chase, the whole thing would be best.)
What sort of host system are you running this on?
What exactly goes wrong? What are you expecting? What actually happens?
What have you tried to fix the problem?
Run ioreg -lirc IOUSBDevice from the Terminal inside the VM` and attach its output here (I'm only interested in HID devices, but if you're not sure, just attach all of it, I can easily find what I need)

rocheston commented 3 years ago

YES! Your solution worked like a charm. I moved the kext file to /System/Library/Extensions and rebooted. The mouse is super smooth now. Thank you for this solution.

Cheers!

pmj / QemuUSBTablet-OSX

PowerPC support #6