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.
Ohhh shit, I just found out I have the BOE Oled panel, and while doing that funny thing also found out I have a dead pixel haha. I was able to tell because I was on reddit on desktop mode and while reading this post saw a super tiny dot all the way to the right about an inch from the trackpad. BUT for me this is way to small to really care about, I can’t notice it unless I really focus on it.
Can this dead pixel affect anything else, maybe the oled panel will eventually get worse ? Because if not, I will keep my Oled LE the way it is because IM A HAPPY PERSON WITH IT 🫣