This has also been discussed before I think. IIRC e17 ignores the keyboard settings in Xorg config as it uses its own tool to handle that. I cant remember how it was solved, it's probably buried somewhere in this thread. If you think about it, one could probably just make setxkbmap run on e17 startup and/or disable the whole keyboard layout thingie and see if it helps.

EDIT:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=400