The X11 driver is missing

akplm79 · Post by **akplm79** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:54 am

Hi.
i' m trying to install Wine from synaptic but when i try to open it by terminal tis is the answer:

Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
The X11 driver is missing. Check your build!
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
The X11 driver is missing. Check your build!
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 126

What can i do to install it?

James Mckenzie · Post by **James Mckenzie** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 8:49 am

akplm79 <[email protected]> at: Dec 11, 2008 2:54 AM (MST) wrote about: [Wine] The X11 driver is missing

Hi.
i' m trying to install Wine from synaptic but when i try to open it by terminal tis is the answer:

Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
The X11 driver is missing. Check your build!
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
The X11 driver is missing. Check your build!
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 126

What can i do to install it?

X is installed on most Linuxes out of the box. However, you did not state which Linux distribution you are using. At this point in time, it appears that your Linux installation is not correct.

James McKenzie

akplm79 · Post by **akplm79** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:12 am

my distro is Ubunutu 8.04!
my sistem haven't problem or error like this! i have this error just with wine! maybe the problem is that wine cannot read the driver! i guess...
what do you think about?

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:34 am

akplm79 wrote:my distro is Ubunutu 8.04!
my sistem haven't problem or error like this! i have this error just with wine! maybe the problem is that wine cannot read the driver! i guess...
what do you think about?

You can't use Wine from pure text terminal. You have to be running X. And please DO NOT run Wine as root.

akplm79 · Post by **akplm79** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:44 am

ok. but I know that wine is installed in my sistem (if i open synaptic i can see that wine is installed at recent versioni 1.1.0). But i can't see it beetwen my applications!
so i tried to run it by terminal...for example if i test wincfg to configure wine....i have this kind of error:

Code: Select all

Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded. 
The X11 driver is missing. Check your build! 
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded. 
The X11 driver is missing. Check your build! 
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 126

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:11 am

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 8:44 AM, akplm79 <[email protected]> wrote:

ok. but I know that wine is installed in my sistem (if i open synaptic i can see that wine is installed at recent versioni 1.1.0). But i can't see it beetwen my applications!
so i tried to run it by terminal...for example if i test wincfg to configure wine....i have this kind of error:

Code:
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
The X11 driver is missing. Check your build!
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
The X11 driver is missing. Check your build!
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 126

Do you have X installed and working?

--
-Austin

James Mckenzie · Post by **James Mckenzie** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:13 am

akplm79 <[email protected]> at: Dec 11, 2008 7:12 AM (MST) wrote about: [Wine] Re: The X11 driver is missing

my distro is Ubunutu 8.04!

You are the first to report this problem with this Linux distro.

my sistem haven't problem or error like this! i have this error just with wine! maybe the problem is that wine cannot read the driver! i guess...

No, the problem is not Wine, it is the fact that you are attempting to run it as ROOT! Please switch to a unpriviledged user and try it there.

Please check, if the Wine menu is available from this user's menu items as well.

James McKenzie