F14: what replaces s-c-d?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 19:49:21 +0000,
  Beartooth <beartooth at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> 	That thing?! Surely you jest. I can't get it to realize anything 
> over 1024x768 exists. Even the oldest of my PCs used to do fine with 
> 1280x1024 -- and this monitor can stretch that up to 1680x1050. In fact, 
> my setting in xorg.conf has long been 1280x1024 for exactly that reason.

The new stuff doesn't work well with monitors that don't do EDID properly.
For old monitors you need to set up xorg.conf entries that say what they
can do. It would be nice if there was a way to somehow use the old list
of monitor specs that was collected to assist people that need to do this.