Moving from this thread http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=26567 to a new one.
As an experiment, I removed xorg.conf and rebooted. My machine is working exactly as before. It is as if my specs are copied somewhere else and X is using them to boot with. Googling around I found that I'm not the only one. Has anyone else here played with this? Does anyone know what has changed in Xorg that we no longer need xorg.conf?