I lied when I said I was calling it quits. :-) As with all new toys I had to see what I could do. That said, I learned a lot just using the interactive shell of adb. I tried to install busybox, but it is compiled for a different kernal (as I should have guessed). :-(

That's the next step I think. With the added goodness of busybox, I could do a lot more I think. Unfortunately xda forums seem down at the moment which is where I believe they've been working on it. If I could get the sources for android and cross compile them for this kernel, I think it would work.

I made a symbolic link to that Internal keymap file and I get the OSK, so that is big for making this work on the 770. Screen cap to follow!