[svlug] Light AMD laptop for linux?

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:04:40 -0800, Greg Lindahl wrote:

> 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

OK, yeah, a non-masochist could conceivably be satisfied with free drivers
on an nForce chipset if Ethernet and other things nForce provides are
never used, which may very well be the case on a laptop. See -- being too
specific can also be something that needs avoiding.