wine users - Mar 2009 - AUdio Meter Application results in Access Violation

I'm trying to run AudioMeter.exe, available for download at
http://www.mydarc.de/dg8saq/AudioMeter/index.shtml

It is a single executable which measures the sound card input as RMS values and
displays them.

When I try and run it under Wine, the program's main window (title bar and
frame only) and its debug window (title bar and fame only) show up on the screen
and I get a message box that says "Access violation at address 00471c2f  in
module AudioMeter.exe. Read of address 00000000". Dismissing the box  with
"OK" just causes it to reappear, ad infinitum.

I wrote the author and he doesn't have much to contribute, but he does say
that the app uses WDM.

I'm running wine in Ubuntu Hardy on an old Dell T500. Wine does successfully
run some VB based apps. None use audio though. Native linux audio apps such as
Fldigi run fine.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

lennyw wrote:
> I wrote the author and he doesn't have much to contribute, but he does
say that the app uses WDM.
WDM means new (win2k+) windows driver model. Wine does not support any drivers.

It would help if you post complete terminal output.

the command wine AudioMeter.exe starts the app and produces virtually no
terminal output.

surprisingly the app can be terminated with a simple ctrl-c, so its not out of
control of the system