Some problems (Keyboard & Graphics)

[Vulpeculae]

Hi everybody!

I installed sabayon linux on my computers last week, and I really like it. (This is the first time I use linux) But I've been having all kinds of problems with it, solved most of them during the week but there's some I haven't found a solution for. That's why I turn to you guys, and hopefully help me get a fully functional linux dist.

My first problem.
I've installed Sabayon on my macbook, and I cant get the alt key to work. Can't write @ (had to copy it), but alt-tab works fine. I've change the keyboard layout to macbook/macbook pro. Is there a solution for this?

My second problem.
I'm using KDE4.2 and it always freezes at the splashscreen (the fourth element is barly visible) when I have composite enabled in the xorg.conf. And I really want it for the nice effects. I have a third? generation macbook with the GMA 950 card. Compiz is installed aswell.

If you need any more info that I've forgot to add, just ask
And please bare in mind that I'm a newbie with linux

Thanks in advance!

[xlnagla]

greetings to you!

my experience has always been that with macs, the alt/ctrl/⌘ keys are flipped, and the fn/non-fn keys are flipped. If you need to press fn to access something normally with a mac, when you've loaded the mac keymap that will flip. Irritating, isn't it? If any of this winds up being your case, then that's indeed a good thing.

As for your graphics, there's a file in your home directory called .xsessionerrors that usually has all your x session errors. See if there's anything interesting in there.

~xlnagla