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.
Ultimately it is Valve’s standards since they would have set the specifications.
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.