Narrowing down time zone location is horridly slow when under vesa driver

I can believe that. I'll need to beat on the zoom code a bit to incorporate real timings.

Detecting whether this is going to be a problem is too hard, so I've just disabled zoom altogether for now as it was only a nicety anyway.

ubiquity (1.3.22) feisty; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * New partitioner:
    - Fix edit dialog not to try to resize partitions even if the resize
      spinbutton was left untouched (LP: #85227).
    - Add contextual buttons to GTK frontend (part of LP: #83166).
    - Add an undo facility.
    - partman-* updates add validation support (LP: #82768); also add
      XFS-on-/boot validation.
    - Break out of setting the mountpoint if it's invalid (LP: #84543).
  * Fix crash if multiple newworld boot partitions are present (LP: #84429).
  * GTK frontend:
    - Fix backup from user information page if migration-assistant is not
      active (LP: #85642).
    - Fix up step numbers if migration-assistant is disabled (LP: #85711).
    - Disable smooth zooming, as some video drivers are very slow at drawing
      this and it's hard to handle this dynamically (LP: #67572).
  * Fill in a default username based on the user's full name (LP: #84550).
  * Retranslate Forward button when going back from summary page
    (LP: #86047).
  * configure.ac: Bump required GTK version to 2.10.0 (for GtkLinkButton).
  * Automatic update of included source packages: apt-setup 1:0.16ubuntu4,
    base-installer 1.70ubuntu4, choose-mirror 2.10ubuntu2, clock-setup
    0.12ubuntu2, debian-installer-utils 1.42ubuntu2, migration-assistant
    0.4, partman-auto 62ubuntu5, partman-base 100ubuntu4,
    partman-basicfilesystems 51ubuntu2, partman-basicmethods 33ubuntu2,
    partman-efi 11ubuntu2, partman-ext3 45ubuntu2, partman-jfs 20ubuntu2,
    partman-newworld 16ubuntu1, partman-reiserfs 34ubuntu1, partman-target
    46ubuntu2, partman-xfs 32ubuntu1.

  [ Jonathan Riddell ]
  * Add new partitioner for KDE frontend

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:59:44 +0000

I have an old Sony Vaio - PCG-XG19, with a neomagic graphics card. I was installing Kubuntu Herd 5 which I downloaded today.

When I tried the install, I never even saw the map. Some of the previous page was still on the display, and there were the dots representing cities, and the tooltip rectangles would display when I'd mouse over cities, but never disappear.

I don't think I gave it 30 seconds before I went on (the city displayed was correct anyway), though given how old this machine is it probably would have taken longer.