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If you ran get-edid and pipe the output through parse-edid ala

./get-edid |./parse-edid

and you get.

./get-edid: get-edid version 1.4.1

        Performing real mode VBE call
        Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f00 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
        Function supported
        Call successful

        VBE version 200
        VBE string at 0xc0056 "Copyright 1998 TRIDENT MICROSYSTEMS INC."

VBE/DDC service about to be called
        Report DDC capabilities

        Performing real mode VBE call
        Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
        Function supported
        Call successful

        Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC1 transfers
        Monitor and video card combination supports DDC2 transfers
        0 seconds per 128 byte EDID block transfer
        Screen is not blanked during DDC transfer

Reading next EDID block

VBE/DDC service about to be called
        Read EDID

        Performing real mode VBE call
        Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x0
./parse-edid: parse-edid version 1.4.1
        Function supported
        Call successful

./parse-edid: EDID checksum passed.

        # EDID version 1 revision 3
Section "Monitor"
        # Block type: 2:0 3:fd
        # Block type: 2:0 3:ff
        Identifier "PTS:df05"
        VendorName "PTS"
        ModelName "PTS:df05"
        # Block type: 2:0 3:fd
        HorizSync 31-50
        VertRefresh 60-70
        # Max dot clock (video bandwidth) 70 MHz
        # Block type: 2:0 3:ff
        # DPMS capabilities: Active off:yes  Suspend:no  Standby:no

        Mode    "1280x800"      # vfreq 60.024Hz, hfreq 50.000kHz
                DotClock        70.000000
                HTimings        1280 1290 1300 1400
                VTimings        800 802 812 833
                Flags   "+HSync" "+VSync"
        EndMode
        Mode    "1280x768"      # vfreq 60.022Hz, hfreq 48.377kHz
                DotClock        80.500000
                HTimings        1280 1344 1472 1664
                VTimings        768 779 786 806
                Flags   "+HSync" "-VSync"
        EndMode
        # Block type: 2:0 3:fd
        # Block type: 2:0 3:ff
EndSection</samp>

You could then insert the approprite data into your configuration files. This was done on a modified LTSP Term 150 (update believed to be a Termtek 3350) running Gentoo Linux and Xorg 6.8.2-r6.