Edgy installation misdiagnoses Shuttle SB61G2V4 as a tablet PC (wacom)

[Richard Elkins]

Specs:

FORM FACTOR FRONT PANEL
• Shuttle Form Factor • (2) USB ports
• Shuttle G2 Chassis • (1) Mini FireWire 400 port
                                       • (1) Mic-In, Speaker-Out, Line-in
PROCESSOR • (1) Power button
• Intel Pentium® 4, Celeron® D socket • (1) Reset button
    478 processors. 533/800MHz FSB
                                       BACK PANEL
CHIPSETS • (1) VGA port
• North Bridge: Intel 865G • (1) Serial port
• South Bridge: Intel ICH5 • (1) FireWire 400 port
                                       • (4) USB 2.0 ports
MEMORY • (1) RJ45 Ethernet port
• (2) 184pin dual-channel DDR • (1) AGP slot
266/333/400 • (1) PCI slot
   SDRAM • (1) PS/2 Keyboard port
• Maximum up to 1GB per DIMM • (1) PS/2 Mouse port
                                       • (1) Fiber SPDIF_In connector
VGA • (1) Fiber SPDIF_Out connector
• On Board VGA : Intel Extreme • 5.1 Analog Audio connectors
   Graphics II
• Support AGP 4x/8x EXTENSION BAY
                                       • (1) 3.5” bay
AUDIO • (1) 3.5” bay (Hidden)
• 5.1 channel AC97 audio • (1) 5.25” bay
• Digital SPDIF I/O
                                       DIMENSION
FAST ETHERNET • 300(L) x 200(W) x 185(H) mm
• Fast 10/100 Ethernet
• Supports Wake-On-LAN function POWER
                                       • 250W active PFC
IEEE1394 • Input: 110 / 240V AC
• VIA VT6307 • EMI Certified: FCC, CE, BSMI
• Support 400Mb/s,200Mb/s, and 100Mb/s • Safety Certified: UL, TUV, CB
   data transfer rate • Power Cord: Depends on specific region
                                          demand
ONBOARD CONNECTORS
• (2) ATA100 IDE headers ACCESSORIES
• (2) SATA 150 headers • (1) Shuttle ICE Thermal Module
• (1) Floppy connector • (1) FDD Cable
• (1) CD_in header • (1) HDD Cable
• (1) SPDIF In/Out header • (1) Power Cord
• (1) IR header • (1) Driver CD
• (2) 1x5 USB 2.0 headers • (1) Mainboard Manual
• (1) Printer port header • (1) Installation Guide
                                       • (1) Shuttle Extras CD

Using a command-line login, I remedied this boo-boo by deleting all the generated "wacom" entries from xorg.conf.
Note that the i910 video chipset and Sony monitor sync characteristics were probed correctly (yay!).