wine users - Mar 2008 - Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be

Hi,

This could be a configuration problem as i am trying to run this on my office
machine and i have not checked its hardware profile or drivers. Also im fairly
new to all this but i know my way around for the most part.

My detro: Fedora 8
WINE version: 0.9.56

Done a yum install for wine today, ran without any errors. afterwards went to
Applications>Wine>winehelp and nothing seemed to happen. I should note
that none of the launchers have icons after >Wine (dont know if thats normal
or not).
I then tried to run ie6setup.exe (internet explorer) using wine taken from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=1e1550cb-5e5d-48f5-b02b-20b602228de6&displayLang=en
Same result, nothing seemed to happen.

To add, when in the /root/.wine/drive_c/windows directory and trying to run
explorer or notepad the same 988 error is displayed:

Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Unknown error (998).

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Carbiens <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
>  [root at me Desktop]# wine ie6setup.exe
Never run wine as root.

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Carbiens <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  This could be a configuration problem as i am trying to run this on my
office machine and i have not checked its hardware profile or drivers. Also im
fairly new to all this but i know my way around for the most part.
>
>  My detro: Fedora 8
>  WINE version: 0.9.56
>
>  Done a yum install for wine today, ran without any errors. afterwards went
to Applications>Wine>winehelp and nothing seemed to happen. I should note
that none of the launchers have icons after >Wine (dont know if thats normal
or not).
>  I then tried to run ie6setup.exe (internet explorer) using wine taken from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=1e1550cb-5e5d-48f5-b02b-20b602228de6&displayLang=en
>  Same result, nothing seemed to happen.
>
>  From my terminal i ran the following:
>
>  [root at me Desktop]# cd /home/me/Desktop/
>  [root at me Desktop]# ll
>  total 496
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 me mygroup 491768 2008-03-20 14:49 ie6setup.exe
>  drwxr-xr-x 7     501      501   4096 2007-11-26 06:28 ies4linux-2.99.0.1

Why are you installing ie6? Wine has its own implementation of ie for
rendering. If it is to test web design, then use ies4linux, but wine
doesn't support it.

I was using IE because it was the first .exe application that popped into my
head to be honest  [Embarassed]

I have tried using WINE to open mIRC now with the same error



Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Unknown error (998).
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 998
[me at me Desktop]$ Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be
loaded.
Unknown error (998).
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 998
fixme:advapi:CheckTokenMembership ((nil) 0x13a0c0 0x34fb58) stub!
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Unknown error (998).
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 998
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
err:menubuilder:WinMain failed to build menu item for
C:\windows\temp\Windows.lnk


Im just trying it out at work at the moment with a machine im not too familiar
with, ill try again from home on my own machine and see if I have better luck.

Thanks for the input.

Carbiens wrote:
> I was using IE because it was the first .exe application that popped into
my head to be honest  [Embarassed]
> 
> I have tried using WINE to open mIRC now with the same error
> 
> 
> 
> Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
> Unknown error (998).
> err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 998
> [me at me Desktop]$ Application tried to create a window, but no driver
could be loaded.
> Unknown error (998).
> err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 998
> fixme:advapi:CheckTokenMembership ((nil) 0x13a0c0 0x34fb58) stub!
> fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
> Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
> Unknown error (998).
> err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 998
> fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
> err:menubuilder:WinMain failed to build menu item for
C:\windows\temp\Windows.lnk
> 
> 
> Im just trying it out at work at the moment with a machine im not too
familiar with, ill try again from home on my own machine and see if I have
better luck.
> 
> Thanks for the input.
How did you logged in to that machine? Are you running Xserver (GUI) right now?
Are you using xterm to run that command or the pure text terminal? What does
"echo $DISPLAY" say? Have you removed ~/.wine directory since it was
contaminated by root?

****This is an edited version of a previous post****


Hi,

This could be a configuration problem as i am trying to run this on my office
machine and i have not checked its hardware profile or drivers. Also im fairly
new to all this but i know my way around for the most part.

My destro: Fedora 8
WINE version: 0.9.56

Done a yum install for wine today, ran without any errors. afterwards went to
Applications>Wine>winehelp and nothing seemed to happen. I should note
that none of the launchers have icons after >Wine (dont know if thats normal
or not).I also tried Wine Configuration and the uninstaller.
I then tried to run ie6setup.exe (internet explorer) using wine taken from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=1e1550cb-5e5d-48f5-b02b-20b602228de6&displayLang=en
Same result, nothing seemed to happen.