I have found the problem (and it's not with wine): The "Connection Refused" error was happening during the process of the LoadLibrary-ing of x11drv. The reason this was happening is that x11drv was loading OpenGL (libGL.so, etc.). Since I have a NVidia on tux, I was running NVIDIA GLX. The bug was with that. The hardcoded opening of :0.0 (despite $DISPLAY set otherwise) was happening somewhere in the deep, dark recesses of libGL.so. I upgraded GLX (and NVdriver) to 1.0-1251 and all was well. Wow ! What an experience ! I traced the execution of wine from the initial main() to the BUILTIN32_LoadLibraryExA and all the way to the dlopen () of libx11drv.so ... wine is a very nice piece of work, Ladies and Gentlemen ! Thanks for all the help, Gabriel _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users