Had a horrible, horrible time trying to get it to work with my spare PC (Athlon 1600+, old graphics card, old monitor).

In the end I had to drop into the shell, edit xorg.conf, add a modeline using frequency details provided by Powerstrip in Windows, change the graphics card driver from 'mga' to 'vesa' and restart X with the three-finger salute, before I could even install the bloody thing.

*sigh*