Figures that just as I do it, someone else does it - had I just cheked this thread an hour ago, I could've skipped compiling myself.

As is, I've gotten myself loadkeys and dumpkeys compiled, and was just coming back on here to say it worked fine using the latest kbd Ubuntu source.

I guess if anyone else needs it, using Tigerite's package is easier (for now at least), so thank you Tigerite. (I might put this kbd package in the repos, if Tigerite doesn't in the near future. *Shrug*)

Also, thanks to Pali pointing out that "key_pressed" is a Nokia proprietary binary, I'm just gonna use "read -n 1 -t 1" instead as I did originally in my posted way of getting shell at boot, on principle (and because if I ever make a package out of my shell method, it's more independent of Nokia blobs)...