http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8797
------- Additional Comments From the3dfxdude@gmail.com 2007-27-06 11:59 -------
And I'm not sure which connection all this this has to "WINEDEBUG+=relay"...
Well, you did say that wine used to work, and now it doesn't work at all. I'd almost tell you to go as far as installing slack 11 on a spare hard drive freshly just to prove that it's not your install of slack that's the problem.
This might be interesting: "ldd /usr/local/lib/wine/wined3d.dll.so"