http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13195
--- Comment #9 from Roderick Colenbrander thunderbird2k@gmx.net 2008-05-17 05:16:19 --- Could you try the latest GIT version of Wine? Some issues related to this bug have been fixed, so perhaps your bug as well. The failure of DescribePixelFormat isn't that bad (perhaps there is a bug there but I just think the app is stupid). The most important calls are SetPixelFormat and CreateContext. CreateContext uses the pixel format set but SetPixelFormat and for some reason it sees pixel format 0 (which doesn't exist). There was a bug which caused this to happen (when a win32 window is created we don't immedeately have a X11 window and some other data structures which cause this problem).
That reminds me this bug might be a duplicate of another bug which sounded the same not sure which it was.