Thinkpad X60 1920×1200 945GM chipset Ubuntu Fiesty
To get 1920×1200 or greater than 1600×1200 on Ubuntu Fiesty utilizing the Thinkpad X60 laptop. You must sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel which will replace the i810 driver. The only nit i’m noticing is a little vid refresh shake every now and then on this 24 inch Dell 2407WFP i’m using. The screen real estate is more important to me right now though. I’ll get that shake remedied, may involve updating the driver first but I’ve got no time to try right now. Anyway I’d recommend first however updating the Thinkpad x60’s bios so you shouldn’t need to use 915resolution. The latest bios update is 7buj20us.iso which looks like it can drive a display to 1920×1440 (and is quite recent at version 2.11).. This is quite impressive actually; I may have to actually buy this setup for home 
A couple of hours later the nit is actually a big issue. It’s annoying me to no end. It seems related to cpu use. Basically the more the laptop is working, or i’m compiling or working with large files. The more I notice the screen refreshing. I can’t force modelines because i’m using a laptop that is exporting to a LCD. So turning off DDC won’t matter, using modelines won’t matter. Getting a VGA-DVI-D adapter won’t help I suspect unless the signal is actually converted. However a convertor would probably cost 200-300 dollars. So that leaves, updating the driver to see if there has been a fix since, well April 04, 2007. If Lenovo’s Thinkpad line had DVI this wouldn’t be a problem. It’s 2007 and they seem to still be pushing vga when most people are switching from crt’s to digital flat panels. It just doesn’t make any sense at all.