wine users - Sep 2010 - WoW error "failed to find a suitable display device.."

Let me preface this post by saying I'm very new to Linux (Ubuntu 10.04) and
thank you for taking the time to read this.

I'm currently running Ubuntu 10.04 64bit, wine 1.3.2 and 2 ati 5770 cards in
crossfire.  I've upgraded the video drivers to the latest 10.8 version found
on amd.ati.com

When I try to run wow.exe I get the message "failed to find a suitable
display device" this occurs with and w/o the -opengl flag.

I've ran "glxinfo | grep "direct rendering"" and
received "returns direct rendering:Yes"

Thank you in advance.

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:27:53 -0500
"Drinkjetfuel" <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> I'm currently running Ubuntu 10.04 64bit, wine 1.3.2 and 2 ati 5770
> cards in crossfire.  I've upgraded the video drivers to the latest
> 10.8 version found on amd.ati.com 
> 
> When I try to run wow.exe I get the message "failed to find a
> suitable display device" this occurs with and w/o the -opengl flag.
> 
> I've ran "glxinfo | grep "direct rendering"" and
received "returns
> direct rendering:Yes"

Have you checked (maybe through synaptic?) to be sure that you have the
32 bit version of wine and the 32 bit version of the video drivers? On
a 64 bit system your video can work fine with the 64 bit drivers and
seem like everything is okay. But for 32 bit programs through wine,
such as WoW, you have to have 32 bit drivers for it use.

Thank you.  

After reading your post I went into synaptic and installed fglrx,
fglrx-amdcccle, fglrx-modaliases, jockey-gtk and jockey-common.

I had to remove restart / activate restart the proprietary FGLRX driver.  ATI
catalyst is showing the up to date 10.8 catalyst and 8.762 package version.

WoW now works in opengl mode.  However in D3D mode the background animation is
upside down and the text is right side up.  I'll have to research / read up
on that one.

Thank you.