Great for Grandmas who Like to nano xorg.conf

[Craig Brooksby]

Installed ubuntu gutsy -- fresh install.
Delighted that it configured itself with nvidia, 1680 x 1050 from the
first boot!
None of the hard work that Feisty required to get that.

Sweet.  Until last night, when it inexplicably (did I apply some
update or other?) and suddenly decided to boot up in 800 x 600 and in
the hours since then, I am in xorg.conf hell.

I am now scooting along at 1400 x 1050 and still working on it.
In 8-10 more hours, I may be able to figure this out.  This is getting me close:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xresprobe/+bug/94994

The theme of this whine is that Ubuntu is great for grandma, until
something happens.  Then it's back to editing xorg.conf.

I find myself wishing that Linux had some kind of rollback or that
configuration was versioned.  Or something.