On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:58:18PM -0500, Michael Lorenz wrote:

> 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.

It's also complicated because since most people nowadays use graphical
interfaces, there are some broken or very buggy vesa implementations
on major vendors (ati, nvidia).

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