>As a side note, I remember that framebuffer was very slow on a computer I had. Without proprietary video card driver both Windows and Linux had troubles even s

>As a side note, I remember that framebuffer was very slow on a computer I had. Without proprietary video card driver both Windows and Linux had troubles even scrolling a window, it was very laggy. Why was unaccelerated VGA (or VESA?) mode so slow, I wonder? FB on modern computers work surprisingly well except for playing video or 3d graphics. Sometimes on BSD systems it is the only option.