http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19722
--- Comment #5 from Adam vektsilver@gmail.com 2009-08-15 14:51:47 --- I actually have figured out where the issue is stemming from. It looks to be the suggestion about the opengl 32 bit libraries may have been it.
The geforce gtx 285 that I have fails to initialize a proper driver on a clean install so I was using the driver I had been using prior to the "clean" installs which was NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.31-pkg2.run from Nvidia's website.
Under the scenario where the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.31-pkg2 driver was working I had previously used the nvidia-glx-180 driver from the ubuntu restricted drivers list. When I did my upgrade the opengl libraries from the previous driver stuck around which filled the gap of the ones that newer NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.31-pkg2 missed.
I have done the installation and reinstallation several times now and the result i get is this
Working scenario.
Clean install do all updates to the system ( aptitude update > upgrade ) then install restricted approved driver ( aptitude install nvidia-glx-180 ). At this point ubuntu starts and I install WINE 1.1.27 based on the instructions from winehq.com. Winecfg starts and there is no crash error reported and the Mount Manager works right from the start. After this I can then upgrade to the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.31-pkg2 drivers and everything still works.
Non Working Scenerio
Clean install do all updates to the system ( aptitude update > upgrade ) then installing NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.31-pkg2 drivers. reboot into ubuntu and the first start of any wine application or winecfg generates a crash with wineboot.exe complains and suggest to go to winehq.com. However winecfg still starts but the key indicator something is broken is the mount manager entry is not in the system.reg and you cant see drives in winecfg menu.
Long story short it looks like the Drivers supplied by Nvidia in latest release have trouble installing the opengl libraries. At least that is what it looks like at the moment.
Im still looking into what is so differant about the installs other than just the versioning. This case can probably be closed unless I find something on the wine side that may need to be addressed.
thanks :)