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.
BOE, LE Deck, one dead pixel right in the center. I noticed it on the white of the Steam Deck logo right as I was booting up. Seems to be a green sub pixel. I hope Valve will take it and fix it.
Konsole Output
Green Screen
On the save select screen of Nier Replicant
Valve will replace it. Fingers crossed that you get one with a healthy panel. The safe bet as of now is to get the non-LE model with a Samsung panel.