Okay friends, let’s check who has a Samsung OLED panel, and who has the BOE OLED panel inside his Deck.

Steps to check:

  1. Go to Desktop mode

  2. Open Konsole

  3. 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:

https://imgur.com/a/Y1jdjmr

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.

  • Kya_Bamba@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Just a general reminder to not run random code on your terminal that you don’t understand. OPs cat command is fine, but always give such things a second thought.

    • iindigo@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Also, it’s generally a good idea to *type out* terminal commands you find online rather than copying+pasting them, because unicode tomfoolery can hide commands that get copied and then ran when pasted in.

    • TheHumanConscience@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      What, you don’t like to run “rm -rf /” daily?

      (this is dangerous, don’t do this, it was joke so this is warning for the truly literal here).

    • Nico_is_not_a_god@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      What do you mean? Every linux beginner should remove the French language pack to save space. sudo rm -fr ./*

      !Don’t do this.!<