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.
1TB LE OLED - 04: BOE - One dead pixel, which was only noticeable on certain colors when checking via a dead pixel test.
Currently running a dead pixel ‘fix’ video to see if I can get it to fix itself if its just a stuck pixel. Pressing on the screen didn’t seem to help.
It’s left of center/middle in the top left side of the screen. Kind of annoying and wish I’d never checked tbh, because now I’ll never not know its there if this video doesn’t fix it.
I thinks its better to check with new stuff so you can return it without much hassle. With older devices I say ignorance is bliss.