{"id":238420,"date":"2026-05-03T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/linux-7-1-finally-fixes-a-2-year-old-steam-deck-oled-audio-issue\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T01:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:45:15","slug":"linux-7-1-finally-fixes-a-2-year-old-steam-deck-oled-audio-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/linux-7-1-finally-fixes-a-2-year-old-steam-deck-oled-audio-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux 7.1 finally fixes a 2-year-old Steam Deck OLED audio issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/linux-71-finally-fixes-a-2-year-old-steam-deck-oled-audio-issue\/\">Linux 7.1 finally fixes a 2-year-old Steam Deck OLED audio issue<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/linux-71-finally-fixes-a-2-year-old-steam-deck-oled-audio-issue\/\">https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/linux-71-finally-fixes-a-2-year-old-steam-deck-oled-audio-issue\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-03 00:48:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.xda-developers.com\">www.xda-developers.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title icon i-list\">Summary<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        Linux 7.1-rc2 adds a DMI quirk to restore the Steam Deck OLED audio probe problem since 2023.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        The issue hit only the OLED model; the LCD Steam Deck was unaffected.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        Quirk confines the fix to OLEDs so other devices aren\u2019t broken; testing expected soon.\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve owned a Steam Deck OLED for a few years, you may have noticed that the Linux 6.8 kernel messed with its audio probe. It happened late in 2023, and for years, people were waiting for a patch to be released for it. As it turns out, the lack of any updates wasn&#8217;t due to nobody caring, but because the problem required some delicate care to ensure it didn&#8217;t break everything else in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the Steam Deck OLED audio issue has now been fixed, and the patch has been merged into the Linux 7.1-rc2 build. And if testing goes smoothly, Steam Deck OLED owners should get their audio probes back in a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tSteam Machine Verified just made the mini PC the most interesting gaming device of 2026<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/linux-71-finally-fixes-a-2-year-old-steam-deck-oled-audio-issue\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux 7.1 finally fixes a 2-year-old Steam Deck OLED audio issue https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/linux-71-finally-fixes-a-2-year-old-steam-deck-oled-audio-issue\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-03&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.xdaimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/02\/steam-deck-oled-1.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-238420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238422,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238420\/revisions\/238422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}