This debuging and hacking kind of remind me of Windows, and dealing with various versions of drivers, service packs, and so on.
Normal sane Linux user would just force resolution into bootloader, and create global xorg.conf. There are like 10 far easier ways to solve this problem.
Point is - I don't want to do any of this on my personal computer after work. I just want to plug a monitor in and... It works. Don't care why, don't care if windows/Mac has some quirks table. I debug enough stuff at work.
Normal sane Linux user would just force resolution into bootloader, and create global xorg.conf. There are like 10 far easier ways to solve this problem.