[Wine] Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be

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On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Carbiens <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  This could be a configuration problem as i am trying to run this on my office machine and i have not checked its hardware profile or drivers. Also im fairly new to all this but i know my way around for the most part.
>
>  My detro: Fedora 8
>  WINE version: 0.9.56
>
>  Done a yum install for wine today, ran without any errors. afterwards went to Applications>Wine>winehelp and nothing seemed to happen. I should note that none of the launchers have icons after >Wine (dont know if thats normal or not).
>  I then tried to run ie6setup.exe (internet explorer) using wine taken from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=1e1550cb-5e5d-48f5-b02b-20b602228de6&displayLang=en
>  Same result, nothing seemed to happen.
>
>  From my terminal i ran the following:
>
>  [root at me Desktop]# cd /home/me/Desktop/
>  [root at me Desktop]# ll
>  total 496
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 me mygroup 491768 2008-03-20 14:49 ie6setup.exe
>  drwxr-xr-x 7     501      501   4096 2007-11-26 06:28 ies4linux-2.99.0.1


Why are you installing ie6? Wine has its own implementation of ie for
rendering. If it is to test web design, then use ies4linux, but wine
doesn't support it.