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> Second, DO NOT use motherboards with built-in video.  These are almost
> always nvidia chipsets and suffer from the nvidia problem.  Also, the video
> is crappy and buggy.

I'd not discount them all as a class. Intel's built-in G33/G35 with
recent DRM and x86-video-intel driver seem to work pretty well for
accelerated 2D on the few boxes I have under FreeBSD-8/amd64. I even
get 3D working on occasion. :-)

--Artem