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.

  • XanadeathBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    The second LE I purchased on my wife’s account also has a dead pixel affecting white/green toward the center of the screen. I might RMA the first one that I got, but honestly thinking about just returning the OLED and sticking with my LCD. Valve said an RMA would be for a new replacement unit not repair or anything. But the chances of a display issue seems very high.

    Or, only the LE suffers from this issue and if I want OLED I should get a regular 1TB and maybe mod it with a transparent shell if I want to at some point.