Installing DirectX in Wine

A google search threw up this page :
http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2008/03/directx-90c-march-2008-redistributable.html

An older version relating to the installation of DX 9c is here :
http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2007/11/directx-90c-on-linux-with-wine.html

I tried the latter, and installation was glitchfree. I could run DXdiag and the direct draw tests were a bit sluggish, which could be attributed to the 256 MB shared RAM and the onboard S3 graphics. But, probably, the hardware would not have posed a problem had the tests been done in Windows. Since the emulation process takes CPU power, some headroom is needed to match the speed.

The dll files mentioned can be downloaded from here : http://www.dll-files.com/

Testing with real games will require a beefier system.