8.10 has an updated Xorg as well (naturally). Pretty much everything is auto-detected now. The Xorg config it gave me is pretty much blank. Video modes, which driver to use, etc... is now all auto-detected. Hell, even the default mouse + keyboard sections aren't in the new Xorg as they are also auto-detected.
I have no idea what you are supposed to do if the auto-detect fails, but that hasn't happened to me on the handful of machines I've installed it on (oldest being an Athlon T-bird 1.4ghz with geforce 2 mx in a refurbed gateway, newest being a Thinkbad Z61p with C2D 2.33ghz and a firegl V5200m - and yes, wireless works perfectly, including WPA-Enterprise)
Oh I agree with that. During initial package configuration everything is auto-detected. However, in recovery mode you can manually select resolutions as well if something should go wrong.