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.

  • Dentantje@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    This makes me anxious. I hope I get a Samsung panel in mine. Even if there’s no dead pixels I still don’t want a panel from China.

    If there is a dead pixel I will send that shit back so fucking fast.

    • spodamayn@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      BOE make tons of panels for monitors and laptops. Chances are, you probably have monitors/laptops that have BOE panels in them. My legion 5 pro laptop has one, no dead/stuck pixels or any issues, but it did have some annoying backlight bleed when I first got it (which is now mostly gone after using it for months and cleaning the screen).

      The problem is with the particular batch the LE steamdeck uses rather than BOE as a whole.