I have some software that does some translation from UTF-8. In Solaris the product has always run fine, but in OpenSolaris I see an error:

ld.so.1: someprogram: fata: relocation error: file someprogram: symbol_iconv_open: referenced symbol not found

Now, from what I have found out is that Solaris used a system call called: _iconv_open
and most Linux use a similar system call in libc called: iconv_open

But apparently there is a slight difference between Solaris and OpenSolaris, which causes this issue.

Does any have ANY knowledge of this? Somewhere I can look to confirm this hypothesis?

Thanks

What's special about Xandros?

http://www.xandros.com/products/desktop/

It looks like every other Linux desktop I've seen out there, but Xandros cost $99. So what's special about it?

The year is 2009 (almost 2010) and Linux still appears to have the "device already in use" problem it's had since day one.

Specifically with respect to audio devices.

If I launch my game (COH under Crossover) the audio works perfect.

If I launch Skype alone - the audio works perfect.

But if I launch Skype and start a conversation, and then launch my game, I get NO SOUND in my game.

And If I launch the game first and the Skype, I get no sound from Skype.

I've tried to open the System > Preferences > Sound and try different mixers but nothing seems to work...

any help?

Update: I think I found the problem:

"There is no sound in my application running in Crossover.

Ubuntu 8.04 uses the PulseAudio backend, which isn't entirely compatible with Wine yet, and sometimes doesn't like Crossover. If you switch the OS back to using ALSA you should have audio restored to your Crossover apps. " [source: Codeweavers support wiki ]

Update 2: How to switch back to ALSA

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-820305.html

Update 3: Skype faq

I also found this helpful-> http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=10858

Update 4: Skype version 2.0
I found this old download link for Skype version 2.0 for Debian (should work for Ubuntu) which was the last version they released that used ALSA before switching to PulseAudio.

http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-debian_2.0.0.72-1_i386.deb

Hopefully that will fix my problem.

I'm just amazed at how good City of Heroes/Villains looks on Ubuntu (playing under Crossover for Linux):

http://pics.livejournal.com/jackal/pic/005dsa06

http://pics.livejournal.com/jackal/pic/005eqwzq

http://pics.livejournal.com/jackal/pic/005dt7hh

It's playing on a pentium 4 (single core) CPU box with an ATI card that's at least 4 years old, and still it looks and plays amazing!

Update: Hardware info

$ grep name /proc/cpuinfo 
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz

$ lspci |grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc R480 [Radeon X850XT]

hi guys?
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ps: that goes to illustrator cs4 as well.

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