Mouse locks up at end of boot on Mac OS 9.2 on a RaspberryPi

[win.exe]

When I boot Mac OS 9.2, my mouse locks up after it boots up. When Installing from the cd, this didn’t happen. My host is Raspbian Buster on a Raspberry Pi 3 model b. My qemu.command is

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 #!/bin/bash
cd "$(dirname "$0")"

qemu-system-ppc -L pc-bios -boot c -M mac99,via=pmu -m 512 \
-prom-env 'auto-boot?=true' -prom-env 'boot-args=-v' -prom-env 'vga-ndrv?=true' \
-drive file=MacOS9.2.img,format=raw,media=disk \
-drive file=MacOS9.2.iso,format=raw,media=cdrom \
-netdev user,id=network01 -device sungem,netdev=network01 \
-device VGA,edid=on \

Qemu version is 3.1.0 (From Debian Buster distribution package)

[adespoton]

Try checking the massive qemu gsoc thread from back when 3.1 was cutting edge; you may need to change to g3beige, and you may need to tweak configuration between using USB and ADB mouse.

[win.exe]

Scrolling through that forum is a pain so do you have any page numbers to fast forward?

[Cat_7]

some pointers for the machine model:

mac99,via=pmu always presents usb keyboard and mouse to the guest
mac99 always presents adb keyboard and mouse to the guest
g3beige always presents adb keyboard and mouse to the guest

I think g3beige will not work with Mac OS 9.2 as guest.

Best,
Cat_7

[UbuntuXP]

Here's a couple of suggestions I got:

• Try booting in safe mode and see if you can move the mouse after booting to desktop.
• Constantly move the mouse during boot.

[win.exe]

I haven’t tried your first suggestion but can I use -prom-env ‘boot-args=-x’ to boot in safe mode?
I can move the mouse on boot but when it fully loads it locks up.

[adespoton]

Try mac99,via=pmu -- does that work any better for you? I'm guessing the issue is with the ADB mouse.

You could also try manually adding a USB mouse using -device usb-mouse

[UbuntuXP]

@madreamer, you have to press the shift key when you see the happy mac until it says extensions off in order to boot in safe mode. This is due to Mac OS 9 not having a concept of boot arguments like Mac OS X.

[win.exe]

Overview of what I've tried.
I tried

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-device usb-mouse

with

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-M mac99,via=cuda

but I get the same problem. Should I try with

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-M mac99,via=pmu

. Safe mode fixed the problem. But there's is 2 drawbacks, I have to hold shift every time and the second one is that I can't launch some apps.

[adespoton]

Try with PMU and see if that fixes it; this will at least narrow down the issue so others will have a better idea of what's going wrong.

[win.exe]

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-M mac99,via=pmu

still gives me the problem.

[win.exe]

Given up, Installed Windows 10 on Arm on Raspberry Pi.