New laptops and OpenBSD: HP Envy 17-DA0013dx

Contributed by Peter N. M. Hansteen on 2026-10-06 from the Slim laptop envy dept.

We have to admit that even users of a well rounded operating system like OpenBSD sometimes encounter hardware that is not quite supported yet.

Fortunately, sometimes the user facing the problematic hardware is an experienced developer like Ian Darwin, and he took the time to write up his experience in a blog post titled Un-hanging the HP Envy 17-DA0013dx for OpenBSD.

The article leads in with,

I recently acquired a lightly-used HP Envy 17" laptop, model DA0013dx, and of course wanted to run OpenBSD on it. It came with Windows 11 on an internal NVME drive. Booting OpenBSD from a USB device failed fast: it hung. To get there, first of course I had to disable "secure boot" in the BIOS.

and chronicles the steps until he reaches the conclusion,

Last words
If you want a modern laptop with a 16:9 touchscreen display to run OpenBSD, the HP Envy is not a bad choice.

If this sounds good to you, go on read the whole thing!

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