[Wine] WoW runs *only* as root (openSUSE 11.1, GeForce 8800GTS)

[mystuff]

Before I say anything, I should probably say that I do realize that I should not be running wine as root, however for the purpose of debugging I tried it anyways ... and to my surprise found it worked.

1 The situation
First of all, this is the same installation, using the same configuration file on the same computer, etc. As a normal user Wow.exe does not even start (note that Launcher.exe does for instance) but as a root user it not only stars but works smoothly.

2 The enviroment
OS: Linux opensuse 2.6.27.19-3.2-default #1 SMP 2009-02-25 15:40:44 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Wine: wine-1.1.9 (but also tried the last 2 snapshots)
Graphics card: GeForece 8800GTS
Graphics driver: 180.29 (Linux-x86_64)

3 The (error) messages

3.1 As normal user (does not work):

Code:
user at opensuse111:~/ISO/World of Warcraft> winedbg Wow.exe -opengl 
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  128 (GLX)                                       
  Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_GLXCreateContext)                          
  Value in failed request:  0x21                                                   
  Serial number of failed request:  137                                            
  Current serial number in output stream:  137


And nothing after that.

3.1 As root user (works)

Code:

# wine Wow.exe -opengl
Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be disabled.            
wine: configuration in '/root/.wine' has been updated.              
fixme:advapi:SetSecurityInfo stub                                   
archive Data\enGB\patch-enGB.MPQ opened                             
archive Data\patch.MPQ opened                                       
archive Data\enGB\patch-enGB-2.MPQ opened                           
archive Data\patch-2.MPQ opened                                     
archive Data\expansion.MPQ opened                                   
archive Data\common.MPQ opened                                      
archive Data\common-2.MPQ opened                                    
archive Data\enGB\locale-enGB.MPQ opened                            
archive Data\enGB\speech-enGB.MPQ opened                            
archive Data\enGB\expansion-locale-enGB.MPQ opened                  
archive Data\enGB\expansion-speech-enGB.MPQ opened                  
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x3aedbc,0x00000000), stub! 
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DImpl_FillGLCaps OpenGL implementation supports 32 vertex samplers and 32 total samplers
fixme:d3d:IWineD3DImpl_FillGLCaps Expected vertex samplers + MAX_TEXTURES(=8) > combined_samplers        
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x3aecac,0x00000000), stub!                                      
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x3af2d8,0x00000000), stub!                                      
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x3af434,0x00000000), stub!                                      
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x3af5a0,0x00000000), stub!                                      
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x3af59c,0x00000000), stub!                                      
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x3af530,0x00000000), stub!                                      
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x3af520,0x00000000), stub!                                      
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x3af018,0x00000000), stub!                                      
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x3af150,0x00000000), stub!                                      
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} not registered                     
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} not registered                     
err:ole:create_server class {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} not registered                        
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} could be created for context 0x7
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} not registered
err:ole:create_server class {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} could be created for context 0x7
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} not registered
err:ole:create_server class {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} could be created for context 0x7
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} not registered
err:ole:create_server class {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} could be created for context 0x7
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} not registered
err:ole:create_server class {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} could be created for context 0x7
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x3adf1c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x3adf44,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECT_TIMEOUT (5000): STUB
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW INTERNET_OPTION_SEND/RECEIVE_TIMEOUT 5000
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECT_TIMEOUT (5000): STUB
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW INTERNET_OPTION_SEND/RECEIVE_TIMEOUT 5000
fixme:reg:GetNativeSystemInfo (0x37402ce4) using GetSystemInfo()
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONTEXT_VALUE; STUB
fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CONTEXT_VALUE; STUB
fixme:winsock:WSAIoctl unsupported WS_IOCTL cmd (9800000c)
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x3adae4,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x3aeaa0,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x3aded4,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:imm:ImmAssociateContextEx (0x100028, (nil), 16): stub



4. Additional information
Once WoW runs (as root) everything in game seems to work, except for sound, but I suspect this is due the use of Pulsaudio in openSUSE 11.1.

5. The question
What can I do? Running as root isn't smart, but perhaps it's possible to give certain permissions to certain (NVidia?)-files and then things will magically work again?

6. Things I've tried
- Every version of Wine I could get my hands on.
- Removing .wine folder
- Every possible combination of options in Config.wtf
- Repairs.exe utility
- Reinstalling NVidia drivers, kernels, rebooting, twice, every time.
- Copy all files from NTFS to Ext3 partition.
- Run as root (oops, that works!).
- Run it again using Vista (works too, but not what I want ;) ).