I'm pretty sure this is hardware/configuration specific, but...

System: Laptop, Compaq Presario 6030
Distro: Fedora Core 6 x86_64

I'm trying to get wine running on this system, but whenever I launch winecfg all I get is a transparent window on the screen. Nothing renders inside the window (i.e. I move it and whatever background originally showed in that window stays in it). I've had this problem ever since I installed the laptop and upgrading through the versions of wine has provided no solution.

Does anyone know what might be going on, or how I can even get some debug info to print out? I've had nothing but problems with this machine. What is odd though is that cedega runs perfectly fine on this machine. It's only wine that I'm having the problem with (and if it's a setting thing, then... I can't get into winecfg. lol.)

hmmm,
could you go to your wine install directory, and do :
"./configure"
and look at the "warnings"
if you can't make sense of it, post it here.

I've been updating using the RPMs provided through yum. However, I did recently download the latest source in an attempt to try to compile it. As expected though, it spat out some errors. I've heard this is an issue with x86_64 machines, and there is probably a fix for it, but I don't know for sure. I didn't notice this on the first run through, but now that I've actually paid some attention, the warning is pretty clear.

configure: WARNING: FontForge is missing.
configure: WARNING: Fonts will not be built. Dialog text may be invisible or unaligned.

Never heard of FontForge. I'm assuming this is something I can just d/l? How odd that it's not on my system by default if it's needed by the compiled RPM provided by Fedora though.

ok, fontforge installed, rpm install still giving empty non-rendering window, ./configure no longer gives warnings... make depend gives no errors. make however, gives the following:

/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib64/libSM.so when searching for -lSM
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib64/libICE.so when searching for -lICE
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib64/libXxf86vm.so when searching for -lXxf86vm
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib64/libXext.so when searching for -lXext
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib64/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib64/libGL.so when searching for -lGL
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib64/libm.so when searching for -lm
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib64/libm.a when searching for -lm
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib64/libc.so when searching for -lc
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib64/libc.a when searching for -lc
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib64/libc.so when searching for -lc
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib64/libc.a when searching for -lc
wgl.o: In function `wglUseFontOutlines_common':
/root/RPMs/wine-0.9.31/dlls/opengl32/wgl.c:389: undefined reference to `gluNewTess'
/root/RPMs/wine-0.9.31/dlls/opengl32/wgl.c:392: undefined reference to `gluTessCallback'
/root/RPMs/wine-0.9.31/dlls/opengl32/wgl.c:393: undefined reference to `gluTessCallback'
/root/RPMs/wine-0.9.31/dlls/opengl32/wgl.c:394: undefined reference to `gluTessCallback'
/root/RPMs/wine-0.9.31/dlls/opengl32/wgl.c:498: undefined reference to `gluTessEndContour'
/root/RPMs/wine-0.9.31/dlls/opengl32/wgl.c:510: undefined reference to `gluTessEndPolygon'
/root/RPMs/wine-0.9.31/dlls/opengl32/wgl.c:452: undefined reference to `gluTessBeginPolygon'
/root/RPMs/wine-0.9.31/dlls/opengl32/wgl.c:459: undefined reference to `gluTessBeginContour'
/root/RPMs/wine-0.9.31/dlls/opengl32/wgl.c:462: undefined reference to `gluTessVertex'
/root/RPMs/wine-0.9.31/dlls/opengl32/wgl.c:476: undefined reference to `gluTessVertex'
/root/RPMs/wine-0.9.31/dlls/opengl32/wgl.c:505: undefined reference to `gluTessEndContour'
/root/RPMs/wine-0.9.31/dlls/opengl32/wgl.c:520: undefined reference to `gluDeleteTess'
/root/RPMs/wine-0.9.31/dlls/opengl32/wgl.c:489: undefined reference to `gluTessVertex'
/root/RPMs/wine-0.9.31/dlls/opengl32/wgl.c:492: undefined reference to `gluTessVertex'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
winegcc: gcc failed.
make[2]: *** [opengl32.dll.so] Error 2
make[1]: *** [opengl32] Error 2
make: *** [dlls] Error 2

i think that the problem exists in the 64bit libs.
i've had problems to running wine on a 64 bit machine. mostly with opengl.

i could be wrong, but i suggest you try again with a 32bit distro. i've managed to get many games running using fedora core 4, 5 and 6. all 32bit and wine from source.

i hope this helps, it's a difficult issue.