**TL;DR:** If your PC wakes itself up a few seconds after going to sleep since the 3.9.5 update, and your motherboard has the MediaTek MT7927 Wi-Fi 7 card, disable the onboard Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in the BIOS. Sleep works again, and you lose nothing because that card doesn't work on 3.9.5 anyway.

My setup

- ASUS ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming WiFi (BIOS 1715)

- Radeon RX 7900-series GPU

- Wired Ethernet, USB Bluetooth dongle

- SteamOS 3.9.5 stable (kernel 7.2.7-valve2)

Symptom

After updating to 3.9.5, sleep stopped working. The screen turns off, then the PC comes back on by itself within about half a minute.

Cause

SteamOS 3.9.5 moved to Linux 7.2, which has drivers for the MT7927: `mt7925e` for Wi-Fi and `btusb`/`btmtk` for Bluetooth. But the chip also needs firmware files that the driver loads into it at startup, and the SteamOS firmware package (`linux-firmware-neptune` 20260910) doesn't include them. There is no `/usr/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7927/` folder.

Here's what happens:

1. At boot, the Wi-Fi driver can't find its firmware and the card fails to start. The driver stays attached to it anyway.
2. When the PC goes to sleep, the driver tries to talk to the card, gets no answer and times out. The kernel cancels the suspend.
3. SteamOS retries with the lighter s2idle sleep mode. That fails too: a USB device on the chipset controller that never responds (most likely the card's Bluetooth half) keeps the kernel busy, and it gives up after 20 seconds.
4. The PC is back on.

My guess is that older SteamOS kernels had no driver for this card at all, so it never got in the way of sleep.

How to check if you have the same problem

Try to sleep once, then in Desktop Mode open Konsole and run:

journalctl -b -k | grep -E "mt7925e|failed to suspend|Freezing remaining"

If you see lines like these, it's the same issue (the `0b:00.0` address can be different on your board):

mt7925e 0000:0b:00.0: Direct firmware load for mediatek/mt7927/WIFI_RAM_CODE_MT6639_2_1.bin failed with error -2

mt7925e 0000:0b:00.0: hardware init failed

mt7925e 0000:0b:00.0: PM: pci_pm_suspend(): mt7925_pci_suspend [mt7925e] returns -110

PM: Some devices failed to suspend, or early wake event detected

Freezing remaining freezable tasks failed after 20.008 seconds

Fix

In the BIOS, go to Advanced → Onboard Devices Configuration and disable **Wi-Fi Controller** and **Bluetooth Controller** (the names can differ a bit between boards). Save and reboot. Sleep works normally again.

If you need the onboard Wi-Fi

The Wi-Fi firmware has already been added to upstream linux-firmware, so hopefully a future SteamOS update ships it. The Bluetooth firmware isn't upstream yet. Until Valve ships the files, the BIOS switch is the simplest workaround.

Who's affected

The MT7927 (Filogic 380) is on a lot of recent AM5 boards, including many ASUS X870/X870E models like the ROG Crosshair X870E Hero and ROG Strix X870E-E. If `lspci | grep -i mt7927` shows something, this probably applies to you.

Hope this saves someone some time! Cheers

I’ve adapted my Steam Animated Screensaver app into a Decky plugin for SteamOS Gaming Mode, so you can build and manage collections without switching to Desktop Mode.

Pick games and animated or static SteamGridDB artwork, add covers/logos, adjust framing per game, and choose original, 16:9 or 16:10. Order, shuffle, duration and transitions are configurable, with a preview before preparation and installation.

Steam handles playback, including offline once the artwork is prepared. Select the installed collection in Settings → Customization → Screensaver, then set the inactivity delay in Power settings.

It requires Decky Loader and a SteamGridDB API key, obtainable through the plugin or here.

Decky Animated Screensaver: https://github.com/Alyenax/Decky-Animated-Screensaver

If you run into problems, please open an issue on GitHub and include your device, SteamOS version and Decky version.

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I repeat BETA USERS DON'T COMMENT!!

I have a Legion Go with official SteamOS out of the box.

I have been running on STABLE always, I don't want to be a betatester also in SteamOS.

From when I have the Handheld there is one thing everything on this planet does but the Geniuses in Valve can't accomplish and is...

DOWNLOADING WITH THE SCREEN OFF!

I was on 3.7 and you read the Betas on 3.8 saying that the feature is available, bla bla bla.

STABLE 3.8 came out - Nothing!

Numerous 3.8.x came out - Nothing!

Now STABLE 3.9 is out, I can't see any options in the Download section in setting - Nothing!!

What is wrong, why is this not possible? You listen to all the YouTubers praising Machine Frame, they want QUICK RESUME, but the most simple thing like a Off screen Download is not possible.

You have to keep your Handheld screen up and properly ventilated because keeping that screen on requires power, be sure not to touch the wrong parts of the screen and mostly that nobody presses the power button to switch off the screen.

Even a Smartphone running Android 1.0 can achieve this simple task!!

I'M NOT GOING BETA!