Complete reading failure there, thanks for pointing it out... I somehow only managed to notice the issues you guys were having getting keymaps to stick, nothing about what you guys were actually succeeding at doing.

Any ideas why editing /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/nokia_vndr/rx-51 with vi might cause my device to fail to boot? I would imagine that worst case would just get me a nonfunctional keyboard, and needing to revert to the older version to fix it, but this is the second time I've edited rx-51 and caused the device to stall at the loading dots. Just trying to get an idea what could be system critical elements in a keyboard configuration file.

Edit: nevermind, I tried editing the file bit by bit this time and nothing blew up in my face, no idea what I could have done that caused system failure, though.