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.

  • straxusii@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I wonder if boe quality control actually allows a number of dead pixels before being classed as a QA fail. So many le users reporting them.

      • TheHumanConscience@alien.top
        BEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        This is correct. If the BOE screens turn out to be a real problem, Valve should be offering LE early adopters an exchange for a good screen free of charge. Send it in, they replace it and send you back one with a proper screen. And then drop BOE as a supplier or sue them if they are in breach of contract. Valve has a reputation to keep, this isn’t helping.