DeckSight Installation

BIOS and Extras

Automated install

DeckSight.desktop.download

The installer will install “extras”, then the BIOS. The extras are a brightness service for the desktop and a gamescope display script. The installer pulls the latest release package from the git repo which includes the patched version of the latest BIOS (F7A0131)

  1. Make sure you are updated to SteamOS current stable (3.7.8 or greater). Installer should work on other Linux based distros but there are too many to test. If the installer does not launch or fails on your distro, use the github repo for manual installation. Windows is unsupported.

  2. Make sure you have a sudo password set. Run “passwd” if not already set.

  3. Download DeckSight.desktop.download to any convenient location.

  4. Double-click the file, and select “execute”, it will download and execute a helper script, that will download, extract, and execute the release package from DeckSight-public git repository.

  5. The graphical installer will launch, first, select which extra components to install (or remove). Last step will install the BIOS. If you are just updating the extras, you can cancel the installer before flashing the BIOS

    NOTE: You will need to plug the charger in after the BIOS is flashed to bring the Steam Deck out of “battery storage mode”

Manual install

https://github.com/ShadeTechnik/DeckSight-Public

  1. Download the release package from the git repo and extract.

  2. Run install.sh for the same Zenity based installer, or follow the readme files for each component.

Other BIOS versions

F7A0131_DeckSight_32GB_signed_r02

The git repo release will only contain the patched version of the latest Steam Deck BIOS from Valve (currently F7A0131). Above are alternate (32GB etc.) BIOS versions. These BIOS versions must be manually installed, and the graphical installer will overwrite them if ran. You can still use the graphical installer to add/remove the extras, and you can do the initial BIOS install, but if updating, you should cancel when prompted to flash the BIOS as it will overwrite whatever is currently flashed.

Older versions of the BIOS have not been thoroughly tested but if you are looking for an older version, and can recover from a BIOS failure, contact info@shadetechnik.com.

If installing the 32GB version, the easiest way to get going is to use the graphical installer above to flash the standard DeckSight BIOS, install DeckSight OLED, then once it’s all working manually install the 32GB BIOS afterwards.

To manually flash the BIOS file from SteamOS run:
$ sudo /usr/share/jupiter_bios_updater/h2offt <path-to-bios-file.fd>

Other files

The Git repo linked above also contains an ICC profile and EDID files which are not necessary but may be useful as well as some information to use them: