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.
LE - BOE - 3 dead pixels. Gonna RMA.
Interestingly, BOE is also one of the display suppliers for the super expensive Razer Blade 16 laptop with the Mini-LED UHD+FHD dual screen ($4k+). And these BOE screens have been plagued with issues since launch.
It looks like BOE QA is less sophisticated.
It’s crazy that these devices aren’t being properly QC’d for dead pixels before they ship.