[Wine] Re: Tried to create a window, no driver could be loaded (998)

[vitamin]

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
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> 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
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> 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?