I doubt the 64-bitness is a problem here, because it got the EDID data
from my monitor. The vesa driver has to use an x86 emulator to run code
from the video BIOS, but I think it manages that fine (Fine here, but
not on my Tecra 8000).

I looked at the source code for ddcprobe (part of xresprobe) and found
the part where it calculates "ctimings":

        /* Standard timings. */
        for(i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
                double aspect = 1;
                unsigned int x, y;
                unsigned char xres, vfreq;
                xres = edid_info->standard_timing[i].xresolution;
                vfreq = edid_info->standard_timing[i].vfreq;
                if((xres != vfreq) ||
                   ((xres != 0) && (xres != 1)) ||
                   ((vfreq != 0) && (vfreq != 1))) {
                        switch(edid_info->standard_timing[i].aspect) {
                                case 0: aspect = 1; break; /*undefined*/
                                case 1: aspect = 0.750; break;
                                case 2: aspect = 0.800; break;
                                case 3: aspect = 0.625; break;
                        }
                        x = (xres + 31) * 8;
                        y = x * aspect;
                        printf("ctiming: [EMAIL PROTECTED]", x, y,
                               (vfreq & 0x3f) + 60);
                }
        }

So that's how it detected "1680x1680" and "1440x1440": It thinks there's
an aspect ratio of 1 because of an "undefined" condition. Is this the
same code that Ubuntu uses to configure xorg.conf for the vesa driver?
If so, that would explain everything.

By the way, has anyone ever looked at edid-decode? It's awesome. It's in the 
xorg git tree here: 
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/app/edid-decode.git;a=summary
I tried it on my EDID and it correctly parsed EVERYTHING. The output is 
attached.

So, I know how people can help with this issue:
Make ddcprobe more like edid-decode. :)

** Attachment added: "Output of edid-decode"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10104181/results.txt

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