PSA - Display Port Audio Now Working in Mojave 10.14.4

[bcjenkins]

Greetings,

I just updated my 5,1 to the latest boot rom and 10.14.4 and was surprised to see my monitor show up as an audio source. I am using a Sapphire Radeon RX580.

DisplayPort:
Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
Output Channels: 2
Current SampleRate: 48000
Transport: DisplayPort
Output Source: LG Ultra HD

 

[bookemdano]

Finally!!

Better late than never. Who ever would have thought one year ago that the cMP would be getting so much love from Apple.

I'm about to install 10.14.4. I have the same card as you so hopefully will see the same result. Would be interesting to see reports from folks with other cards (or even different flavors of the Sapphire RX580).

Edit: Indeed it has been fixed. I can confirm the same "DisplayPort" device now showing up in System Profiler > Audio. I have a Sapphire Pulse RX580 connected to a Dell P2715Q.

For the record, I had never installed any of the kexts or other hacks to get this feature working before, so this fix is 100% Apple's doing. Also, I'm still on firmware 140.0.0.0.0 so the fix is in the OS itself, and not in 141.0.0.0.0. I don't actually use DP audio with my current setup, so I had pretty much forgotten about this bug. I had given up on Apple fixing it since I and several others filed detailed reports during the Mojave beta period. I wonder if Apple always intended to fix it but just considered it low enough a priority to wait until a later point release. In any case, yet another longstanding bug finally fixed in the cMP's twilight years.

I am really curious though if people with other supported GPUs have it fixed also, or if Apple only fixed it for the 560 & 580.

Nice find bcjenkins!

Edit 2: Here's how it shows up in System Profiler > PCI.

 

[Fooze]

I just upgraded to macOS 10.14.4.

I’m using a club 3D active display port to hdmi adapter and DP audio is working with my MSI RX560 on a Sony 43” 4K TV.

It’s not working on my Sapphire Radeon R9 280x flashed with a Mac EFI bios.

 

[LightBulbFun]

I can confirm that HDMI/DP Audio does not work on my Gigabyte AMD Radeon HD 7950 in both PC and Mac modes either sadly

happy to see however that apple has enabled it for newer AMD cards at least

 

[h9826790]

I can confirm that HDMI/DP Audio does not work on my Gigabyte AMD Radeon HD 7950 in both PC and Mac modes either sadly

happy to see however that apple has enabled it for newer AMD cards at least

The 7950 audio part should work in Windows. Something is not right here.

 

[bookemdano]

The 7950 audio part should work in Windows. Something is not right here.

I wonder if he meant he tried both positions of the BIOS switch on the card.

 

[MisterAndrew]

Thanks for letting us know. I reported on Monday in the Polaris & Vega thread that it works on RX Vega with the 10.14.4 update, so HDMI and DP audio have been enabled for both Polaris and Vega.

 

[bsbeamer]

HDMI audio with Sapphire Pulse RX580 8GB sort of works. It's available as a selectable output option, but "The selected device has no output controls" message still appears. Audio playback can be triggered, but does take a second to "kick" in with the first few frames/milliseconds being cutoff. I'm sure it's not an issue for most people, but will be sticking with previous audio outputs.

 

[newtomac13]

Anyone aware with how to fix an audio for miniDP to DP (monitor speakers) on mojave 10.14.6 with mac EFI flashed sapphire hd 7950 ?