Fn key is now working (recognised by Xmodmap).

if there's problems with enter, this worked for me:

gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/osso/inputmethod/keyboard_available true

Thanks for all the great constant updates to Mer, its definitely very usable now with the keyboard fn fix. I just wanted to add that the keyboard leds can be turned on manually by changing the value of
/sys/class/leds/keyboard/brightness
I hope someone can make a little script to turn the lights on when the keyboard is open and off when its closed. The keyboard state is available at
/sys/devices/platform/gpio-switch/slide/state
Hope this helps get the keyboard backlight working for n810 users

Thanks a lot!

could the keyboard brightness file be symlinked to advanced-backlight value file (if any)? if so, where's the advanced-backlight value file?

I don't have advanced backlight installed as i am still tinkering with my xfce4. I will install it today when i get some time and try to locate the file for you.

EDIT: Ok i was thinking of advanced-power instead of the pre-installed advanced backlight :-) I think it can be easily implemented in a way that changing the brightness will write to to both files; screen brightness file and keyboard led one. Maybe be a different slider can be added to control the keyboard brightness. User rm_you maybe can shed more light on this.

when i try this in my N810 it says: No value to set for key: ´true´

double check your command, you probably forget to include -t bool in your command to define the type as boolean and then you can give it the true value

gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/osso/inputmethod/keyboard_available true

weird... im doing just like you posted... now says nothing.. but enter still wont work :S

im trying being normal and root user, within xterminal...

You need to apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade , as this wasn't a feature in 0.7 (or wait until sunday for 0.8)

I seem to have a problem. I installed Mer according to the instructions in the wiki using the installer on my N810. After the final reboot....nothing. I dont seem to be able to boot onto Mer, neithe with holding the swap key nor otherwise. Any ideas?

PS.: it also seems to have f...ed up my keyboard (german keymap) *sigh* FN key doesnt work anymore...

PPS: ok, i found out what the problem was:
The "device" entry in /etc/bootmenu.d/mer-simple-ext.item was ${EXT_CARD}p3 instead of mmcblk1p3. I suppose that is a bug?
Keyboard is still f...ed up, though.

installer might make wrong .item files sometimes change mmcblk1 to mmcblk0 in /etc/bootmenu/mer*.item if you wanna use mer from external card