Comment 30 for bug 382864

Sorry for not following up sooner, took a bit before I was rebooted without KMS, which I needed to do in order to show this is not (entirely) a gnome-settings-daemon issue. Here's the output of xrandr *without* KMS:

$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 2048 x 2048
VGA connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 473mm x 296mm
   1680x1050 60.0*+
   1280x1024 75.0 60.0
   1440x900 75.0 59.9
   1280x960 60.0
   1280x800 59.8
   1152x864 75.0
   1024x768 75.0 70.1 60.0
   832x624 74.6
   800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
   640x480 75.0 72.8 66.7 59.9
   720x400 70.1
LVDS connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 331mm x 207mm
   1280x800 60.0*+ 50.0
   1024x768 85.0 75.0 70.1 60.0
   832x624 74.6
   800x600 85.1 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2
   640x480 85.0 72.8 75.0 59.9
   720x400 85.0
   640x400 85.1
   640x350 85.1
TMDS-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
$

Note the significantly increased number of available modes (4 extra modes for the VGA, and 4 extra modes for the LVDS), significantly, including the maximum LVDS resolution as one of the supported VGA resolutions.

So perhaps that's a kernel bug rather than an X driver bug, but it's not a gnome-settings-daemon bug.