[svlug] Light AMD laptop for linux?

[Greg Lindahl]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:25:12AM -0800, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:

> It is possible to use any chipset for AMD
> without non-free drivers of any kind, with markedly reduced functionality,
> except with VIA, which has no such requirements, and ATI, which requires
> them only for video over and above VESA. Only a masochist would try such a
> thing with a chipset from SiS or nVidia.

Er, my AMD laptop has an nVidia chipset and only needs one non-free
driver, video. I try to avoid generalizations, it's too hard to end up
wrong.

-- greg