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macOS Sierra 10.12.6 Public Beta Four (16G18a) is available. All of the kexts from the public beta three release are still there, with new build dates but the same version numbers as before. No comments regarding audio until later.

Edit: No audio yet using the 9515 Controller with the 4200 kext.
 
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Adventures in RX 460 Frame Buffering Audio...

macOS Sierra 10.12.6 PB 4 and Clover 4091.

Using Inject-ATI = false will default to the the 9500 Controller with the 4200 kext. You get the generic AMDRadeonFramebuffer.

Using Inject-ATI= true with no named frame buffer will default to the 9500 Controller with the 4200 kext, but you get the Acre frame buffer. If you do not have the Acre connector patch in place and active, you get the notorious black screen of opaqueness.

Using Inject-ATI= true with the Acre frame buffer gives you the 9500 Controller and the 4200 kext.

Using Inject-ATI= true with the Berbice frame buffer gives you the 9510 Controller and the 4200 kext. Note: In the previous beta, I was getting the 9510 Controller and the 4100 kext. I am not sure why this is, I have updated Clover to the latest version since then, but the kexts and controllers are still at the same version and presumably unchanged from last time.

Using Inject-ATI= true with the Longavi frame buffer gives you the 9515 Controller and the 4200 kext.

In none of these scenarios does audio over the HDMI or the DP connectors work. Video is fine though. Actually, quite nice.

I am not sure what setting has to be made to get the 4150 kext to spring into action, it seems like it should be the default choice instead of the 4200 for the RX 460 (and RX 560) line of cards, but so far it is staying out of the way.

I have not ventured into the frame buffers in the 9520 Controller yet since these look to be more suited for the RX 470/480/570/575/580 cards, also, I gather that someone using one of those cards would have spoken up by now if they had working audio.
 
Update. After taking a cursory look through the available docs, I was unable to find any quick setting that would force the os to use the 4150 kext; force-loading sure, but not force-to-use, I used the Gigamaxx approach and disabled the 4200 kext, rebuilt the cache and restarted. The os fought back by using the 4100 kext instead of the 4150. But no sound. So I disabled it as well. Backed into a corner, the os decided to then use the 4150 kext but alas, it won this round as well by refusing to put out any sound over the DP or HDMI connectors. So I put things back the way they were. So, ehh, more waiting.
 
What you did a manual kext edit, or two? I'm proud of you, see it wasn't that bad, lol!

I thought you would appreciate that, though I did use Terminal to do the editing... The easiest approach being to just move the kext to the trash to disable it or use Terminal to make a few permissions changes.

Have you been watching the RX card prices?
 
I thought you would appreciate that, though I did use Terminal to do the editing... The easiest approach being to just move the kext to the trash to disable it or use Terminal to make a few permissions changes.

Have you been watching the RX card prices?

Bit coin miners like a bunch of Pokeymon fanatics!
 
Bit coin miners like a bunch of Pokeymon fanatics!

That along with some hoarders doing serious price gouging. You might want to put a Vega card on reserve. I picked up my RX 460 for around $100 when it came out, it is now going for $200. Ouch!!! Speaking of Vega cards, Clover has a brand new version out already (v 4097) that has the Vega card info in it.
 
Clover has a lot of High Sierra stuff as well, I downloaded 4093 this morning, 4084 last night.

Vega next Tuesday for 1200-1800, or wait till next year when the conned-sumer cards come out. If I can get a 1200, I'll take it for testing briefly but, yikes, that's an expensive 1080ti? I hope consumer cards are down in the 500-700 range.
 
Vega next Tuesday for 1200-1800, or wait till next year when the conned-sumer cards come out. If I can get a 1200 ill take it for testing briefly but yikes, thats an expensive 1080ti? I hope consumer cards are down in the 500-700 range.
Seems like the gaming cards come out July/August. AMD has a few different Vega core cards announced now:

Frontier Edition
http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-vega-frontier-edition-air-liquid-cooled-pre-order-1800-usd/

Instinct MI25
http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-instinct-mi25-mi8-mi6-graphics-accelerators/

RX & Pro
http://wccftech.com/amd-vega/
 
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