diff -up xf86-video-intel-2.7.0/src/drmmode_display.c.jx xf86-video-intel-2.7.0/src/drmmode_display.c
--- xf86-video-intel-2.7.0/src/drmmode_display.c.jx	2009-04-21 12:57:05.000000000 -0400
+++ xf86-video-intel-2.7.0/src/drmmode_display.c	2009-04-21 12:59:35.000000000 -0400
@@ -525,6 +525,41 @@ drmmode_output_get_modes(xf86OutputPtr o
 		Modes = xf86ModesAdd(Modes, Mode);
 
 	}
+
+	/*
+	 * LVDS can scale.  If there's no EDID, or if it claims not to be
+	 * continuous-freq, then add the default modes so we get 800x600
+	 * and friends.
+	 */
+	if (strstr(output->name, "LVDS")) {
+		xf86MonPtr mon = output->MonInfo;
+		if (!mon || !GTF_SUPPORTED(mon->features.msc)) {
+			DisplayModePtr m, i;
+			int max_x = 0, max_y = 0;
+			float max_vrefresh = 0.0;
+
+			for (m = Modes; m; m = m->next) {
+				max_x = max(max_x, m->HDisplay);
+				max_y = max(max_y, m->VDisplay);
+				max_vrefresh = max(max_vrefresh,
+						   xf86ModeVRefresh(m));
+			}
+
+			max_vrefresh *= (1 + SYNC_TOLERANCE);
+
+			m = xf86GetDefaultModes(FALSE, FALSE);
+
+			xf86ValidateModesSize(output->scrn, m, max_x, max_y, 0);
+			for (i = m; i; i = i->next)
+				if (xf86ModeVRefresh(i) > max_vrefresh)
+					i->status = MODE_VSYNC;
+
+			xf86PruneInvalidModes(output->scrn, &m, FALSE);
+
+			Modes = xf86ModesAdd(Modes, m);
+		}
+	}
+
 	return Modes;
 }