wine users - Sep 2009 - New install of 1.1.29: gives "fixme:ntdll:server_ioctl_file"

Hi everybody,

A new install (using the YaST) of 1.1.29 on a SuSE 11.1.
Running winecfg for the first time gives:


Code:
wine: created the configuration directory '/root/.wine'
ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file
or directory
Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled.
wine: configuration in '/root/.wine' has been updated.
ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file
or directory



Not sure if this is important or not? I am not interested in sound. So if that
never works, no problems. But when I then select the Drives tab, I get this:

Code:

fixme:ntdll:server_ioctl_file Unsupported ioctl 24000 (device=2 access=1 func=0
method=0)



Which does worry me! If anyone has any thoughts on how to fix it, I'd very
please to hear from you.
I have done a couple of days Googeling but not found anything significant.

Two other factors that I need to add:
One - I am trying to run hMail (the AppDB is not that encouraging but it is an
old comment - maybe today . . . .?)
Two - I'm a Linux newbe - be verbose in any explanations you can offer.

Best regards,
Martin

first: you should *never* run wine as root, this could pose a serious issue for
the safety of your computer.
the alsa-message means that you could perhaps have trouble controlling the
volume of the sound - other than that it ain't serious.

if a message has the prefix "fixme" you usually can safely ignore it.