Thread: how to get bluetooth pc105 keyboards to work with N900
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jtkim is offline jtkim
2010-01-23 , 21:55
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Originally Posted by qobi View Post
First, let me emphasize that you should not attempt to do this unless you know what you are doing. If you make a mistake and mess up the /usr/share/X11/xkb directory you will brick your device and need to reflash. I know because I did.

This assumes that you have already enabled HID bluetooth by editing /etc/bluetooth/main.conf as described elsewhere. And that you hae already installed /usr/share/X11/xkb-chinook from the tar file that I posted earlier in this thread.
Do I understand correctly that after deleting "input" from the list of disabled plugins and pairing the keyboard, I should see the keyboard in the output of "hildon-im-xkbtool --list"? Unfortunately that's not the case for me, so I must be missing something.

I use the GUI to pair with the keyboard by going to the Bluetooth dialog, selecting "Devices", then "New", then selecting the "Think Outside Keyboard" device, clicking on "Pair" and entering the (randomly generated) key on the keyboard. After pressing "Enter", I get a "Pairing complete" message and the keyboard appears in the list of Bluetooth devices. However, it does not show up in the "hildon-im-xkbtool --list" output.

Please tell me whether I'm doing something wrong.


As a remark regarding the warning about having to reflash after messing up the xkb files -- I think I narrowly escaped that yesterday. I did accidentally overwrite /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/nokia_vndr/rx-51, but was logged into my N900 via ssh and could repair the problem by running "apt-get --reinstall install xkb-data".

Best regards, Jan