Yeah, there's a bug in Diablo that can be exploited to finally make Xkbd work correctly after two years.

Disabling and then re-enabling the hildon keyboard causes the bug, which in my case is something very useful.

I have yet to figure out how to get it back the way it was after running that command so a reboot will be necessary.

Just don't bother with those gconftool commands ever again and you'll be fine.


Dang, this was a seriously long discussion for such a simple solution.

Something just occurred to me...

If that base file is different between the N800 kernel OS and the one for the N810, you're screwed.

Ask someone to post up that file so you don't need to reflash.

Once you copy it back over run in Xterm.

setxbdmap

This might not be the case but thought I would post anyway since I'm done here for the night.

Cheers!

No, that base file was different. Hardware kb couldnt use function keys... I was screwed. Fortunately I had a cloned backup from about a week ago. Posting from it now.

Its been quite an adventure so far.

N810's xkb base from /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules

That base file is the exact same as the N800's version.

So not sure what happened on your end.

I'm guessing you probably used those gconftool commands while the hardware keyboard was opened and that sent weirdo signals to your tablet.

Well, good to hear that it worked out for you in the end.