wine users - Nov 2010 - Wine doesn't have direct3d9?

Where ever I go everyone says wine has it's own implementation of direct 3d,
but when I try to run an application(Heroes of might and magic V in my case) it
says it can't initialize direct3d9.
On the winehq page it says it should run fine, only with a few minor problems.

And according to this page wine should output debug data whenever a direct3d app
starts direct3d
http://wiki.winehq.org/3DDriverIssues

But I get no wgl output meaning that I probably don't have direct3d.

I have tried running the game on a clean wine dir, on a clean wine dir with
micr*soft direct3d installed, and neither worked.
So am I doing something wrong or is this application and all apps that run
direct3d9 are garbage?

Thanks.

If you get no wgl output, it means your GPU drivers are not working.

In a terminal run the following:

$ glxinfo | grep "direct rendering"

it should output: 

$ glxinfo | grep "direct rendering"
direct rendering: Yes

if it doesn't, your drivers are not working correctly.

and if you run

$ glxinfo | grep "server glx vendor string"

and post the output we will get an idea of what drivers you have installed and
what can be done to start fixing it.

But, broken OpenGL isnt a wine problem, so you may have better luck going via
your Distro's support channels.