@kotzkind: Yeah. I can confirm that shift and control both cause matchbox keyboard to crash. Something seems to be up with keymapping in X. I'm looking forward to any help so hopefully your N800 comes soon.

@dblank: This is before Xomap is running. There might be some special trick to initialize the framebuffer.

also it seems like the wiki was kicking people out as soon as they logged in. It only happened to me in firefox not opera so I thought it was a problem with cookies. It seems to work now in firefox for me, so I'd appreciate if anyone who wanted to update the wiki try again and tell me if it still doesn't work. Thanks!

BTW: updated wiki and first post in this thread with current status.