Thread: how to get bluetooth pc105 keyboards to work with N900
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2010-01-24 , 03:07
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Originally Posted by olighak View Post
1. Plug your phone up to your computer and select Mass Storage mode. Open the .tar up in Winzip or another program that opens Zip files. Extract the contents to your desktop.

2. After extracting the .tar you should have a directory called xkb-chinook on your desktop. Copy that directory into the tmp folder on your N900 (which you find as a mass storage drive in windows explorer)
It is safer and easier to do this directly on the N900 rather than a Windows desktop by:

1. copying the file xkb-chinook.tar from my earlier post to /tmp on your N900.
2. then do

$ sudo gainroot
# cd /tmp
# tar xf xkb-chinook.tar
# mv -i /tmp/xkb-chinook /usr/share/X11/.
# exit

There are several reasons you want to do the above as root on a Unix/Linux machine on a Unix/Linux file system (such as ext2, ext3, ...). Among them, to preserve file/directory uids, gids, and permissions (and ctimes and mtimes while you are at it), as well as symlinks.