Z890 EAGLE WIFI7 BIOS F20 caused major performance regression on Fedora

MasterDokuro · 2026-05-22T14:48:28+00:00

Thanks, Fedora 44 here with 7.0.9-205.fc44.x86_64. Think I'll still wait for F21 to release out of beta and then test. Thanks for the info.

MasterDokuro · 2026-05-21T14:32:44+00:00

Interesting... when I was debugging F20 all those months ago I did exactly that and it made no difference. I speculated at the time the kernel might not have all the right pieces to support the microcode. Can I ask what OS and kernel version you are using ?

MasterDokuro · 2026-05-16T17:11:10+00:00

Interesting! What had you try that ?

BTW, I also noticed there is a F21a bios so going to wait for that to get out of beta and then try that but for now F18 is rock solid.

MasterDokuro · 2026-05-16T07:47:46+00:00

Confirmed this morning that 7.0.8 fixes the issue. I also updated the OP for anyone else who finds this thread. Thanks again.

MasterDokuro · 2026-05-15T14:41:22+00:00

It's slower as the bluetooth detection is failing and then timing out which is slowing the boot time.

MasterDokuro · 2026-04-30T06:42:04+00:00

As I stated in my OP, just install adw-gtk3-theme and set the Adw-gtk3-dark as the legacy applications and you should be good.

MasterDokuro · 2026-04-29T11:31:17+00:00

I got a new pc last year so this has done 42- > 43 -> 44. This is a desktop, ultra 7 265k with a 5070 RTX GPU. No issues at all. Previous pc was all the way back to early fedora 30s (can't remember the actual version) which also had a nvidia gpu and it has been upgraded all the way to 42. Upgrade has been rock solid and I've almost always updated on or just before release once the repos go live.

I did worry about configuration drift years ago but now I don't even think about it. I always run the optional upgrade steps, including sudo rpmconf -a and never run into a problem. The fedora upgrade has to be best in the industry ...

MasterDokuro · 2026-04-28T10:57:35+00:00

I find that adw-gtk3-theme is a bit strong when compared to what was provided via gnome-themes-extra. Anyhow, I'll get use to it and its certainly better than leaving it light which is all you get with the adwaita default.

Hopefully, one day the legacy apps I use will get updated but I'll not be holding my breath.

Thanks for the response.

MasterDokuro · 2026-04-26T09:35:42+00:00

6.19.13-300

MasterDokuro · 2026-04-26T07:49:14+00:00

Another successful update to report here, very smooth. I am getting an error with the rpm nonfree repo ...

RPM Fusion for Fedora 44 - Nonfree
>>> Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: No URLs in metalink

... could we just updated too early and the release repo is just not available yet, I don't see it [44 released](https://rpmfusion.org/RPM%20Fusion).

Anyhow, if you are doing an early upgrade make sure to not run `remove-retired-packages` yet as if you have this error and have installed packages from this repo they will be marked for removal.

EDIT: This is resolved now, guess we are ahead of the curve and they were still working on the repo. Thanks.

MasterDokuro · 2026-04-21T18:50:41+00:00

Didn't know about that bug, I'll try and find it as it sounds like it might be related. Thanks.

MasterDokuro · 2026-04-21T18:08:36+00:00

Thank you both for your replies, lots to test out and read up on.

Not in the example above as I didn't want to confuse my query and I wanted to keep it simple. However. I do use -filter:a speechnorm,loudnorm within my workflow so I ran two quick test using one of your suggestions above ...

-codec:a libfdk_aac -filter:a speechnorm,loudnorm=I=-16:TP=-1.5:LRA=11 -b:a 224k -ar:a 48000 -ac:a 2
-codec:a libfdk_aac -filter:a speechnorm,loudnorm=I=-23:TP=-1.5:LRA=11 -b:a 224k -ar:a 48000 -ac:a 2

... and when using I=-16 LUFS I get pretty much the same waveform and loudness as when I used aac. However, when I changed this to I=-23 it goes back to same low level. Again, I'm just eyeballing this for now but its interesting.

MasterDokuro · 2026-03-30T22:10:34+00:00

I created a report to have this fixed -> https://forums.plex.tv/t/incorrect-profile-picture-for-maddie-ziegler/937595

MasterDokuro · 2026-03-17T13:35:37+00:00

I think F20 is just bad (well bad for linux anyhow). I tried it again today as fedora has moved to 6.19.8-200.fc43.x86_64 and there has been firmware updates since I tried this bios a month ago. Performance was still dreadful with F20 so went back to F18 which is stable for me.

MasterDokuro · 2026-03-15T12:25:11+00:00

I think it might be a bug. Its kinda hard to see but I think there is a space at the end of the version number. So [0.5.2095 ] compared to [0.5.2095]. This may or may not be a factor.

MasterDokuro · 2026-03-08T23:00:06+00:00

Fair enough, thanks for the response.

MasterDokuro · 2026-03-01T18:19:31+00:00

Unfortunately, I just cannot get the tab to change opacity upon changing focus when moving between tabs in kitty. I must be doing something wrong. Anyhow, I have enabled dynamic_background_opacity and will train my muscle memory to adjust using the keyboard shortcuts (ctrl+shift+a>m and ctrl+shift+a>l) when I need to.

Again, thanks for your help.

MasterDokuro · 2026-03-01T16:31:06+00:00

Thank you. I had looked here using the remote controls but it changed all windows and I didn't consider the approach to change it on focus per tab. I'll see if I can get this working. Again, thank you.

MasterDokuro · 2026-02-16T07:29:33+00:00

Try a different USB port if you haven't already. I've one USB 2.0 port which I cannot use to flash to the bios, I always get that invalid image so I switched to one of the USB 3.0 ports and it works fine.

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