Comment 14 for bug 1203984

It works OK with this hardware:

Intel Atom CPU 230 @ 1.60GHz
Intel 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
Intel N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
2GB DDR2 RAM

And the behavior I'd originally described just showed a continually scrolling progress bar (now just dots), but on that old VIA hardware the "dots" actually freeze so that's probably either a kernel or X thing. I'll follow up on that later.