Xorg.conf modelines? fedora 8

[Frank Murphy]

On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 07:05 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:41:24 +0000
> Frank Murphy <frankly3d-fedoracore at utvinternet.com> wrote:
> 
> > Where would I place modelines, what section?
> 
> Near as I can tell, the version of X that comes on fedora 8
> comes with a radeon driver that utterly refuses to accept
> any ModeLine info you might try to specify manually.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389041

Had a look at the linked patch:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10205

Can someone fill me in how to apply\use it?, as diff files are not
something have used to play with as yet.


Frank