lsmod you are using a very old version of wine. <== marks where the program stoped on the back trace. Tells us inside some closed source driver that wine-device managed to load. Is windows version in wine set to XP because it could be just a badly code program that finds OS by attempting to load drivers. ie vkvxd.vxd should not be attempted to be loaded under XP By the way appartently native Linux solutions exist for DSO 2100's http://www.ise.pw.edu.pl/~wzab/dso2100pp/index.html http://freenet-homepage.de/kritikus/clicliclic/dso2100.html