Michael Lorenz wrote:
> >>Anyone else have very slow text console display?

> >I don't think it's using bit blitting to speed up scrolling.
 
> Well, it can't. There was a proposal for a VESA BIOS extension to talk 
> to a blitter but as far as I remember it never got anywhere.

The specs exist:
http://www.vesa.org/public/VBE/VBE-AF07.pdf

Whether that's actually supported anywhere, I don't know.

-- 
Christian