Okay friends, let’s check who has a Samsung OLED panel, and who has the BOE OLED panel inside his Deck.
Steps to check:
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Go to Desktop mode
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Open Konsole
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Paste the following command into the terminal:
cat /sys/class/drm/card0-eDP-1/edid | hexdump -C
You will get the output like in this screenshot:
The marked number is relevant and means the following:
01: 800x1280 @59.998545 (BOE, LCD)
02: No longer present
03: 800x1280 @90.003892 (Samsung, OLED)
04: 800x1280 @90.061454 (BOE, OLED)
So my results are:
Model: Steam Deck 512GB OLED
Panel: Samsung OLED
What’s yours? Please also don’t forget to post the model, so we can analyze if there’s some correlation.
The second LE I purchased on my wife’s account also has a dead pixel affecting white/green toward the center of the screen. I might RMA the first one that I got, but honestly thinking about just returning the OLED and sticking with my LCD. Valve said an RMA would be for a new replacement unit not repair or anything. But the chances of a display issue seems very high.
Or, only the LE suffers from this issue and if I want OLED I should get a regular 1TB and maybe mod it with a transparent shell if I want to at some point.