Good way to test my 3D setup?

[MDesigner]

Hey all

I'm finally going to install Slackware 10 on my home computer tomorrow or possibly tonight. I've got an nVidia GeForce 3, and I think I know how to get it working.. basically just install the nVidia Linux drivers, and make sure the nvidia-agp module is running, and edit the xorg.conf to make sure DRI is commented out and GLX is not.. and that should be it I believe.

Then I just need a good way to test out my system to see if 3D is working properly..any suggestions? No Winex stuff please.. I'm looking for decent Linux 3D games to check out. (free, no commercial stuff)

Thanks!

[IsaacKuo]

I don't know about 3d games--I'm curious about that myself--but for just seeing if your 3d acceleration is working properly try out xscreensaver and the OpenGL xscreensavers. Use the xscreensaver config window to try out various OpenGL screensavers. It'll be REALLY OBVIOUS whether or not hardware acceleration is working.

[Hayl]

run TuxRacer or Unreal Tournament.

[Icarus]

I have DRI enabled on my GeForce 4 and have no problems (it needs to be enabled for vmware to use full screen)

Best, easiest and quickest way to test if everything is working is glxinfo. if it's short, you're not working. Even easier is
glxinfo | grep rendering
If that =yes, your good

Usually once you change the "nv" to "nvidia" in the XF86Config it will start or not, and that's a good sign :D

glxgears will also give a good hint, generally...over 1000fps there is a usually accellerated

[MDesigner]

What exactly is DRI and why do some people recommend commenting it out? One person actually said if you uncomment it, your system will not boot (which sounds false to me, since you could easily boot without running X).

[Icarus]

I think a lot of the 'fear of DRI' comes from long ago when DRI was incompatable with nvidia's GLX...I looked through the entire README from nvidia on installing their drivers and there is no mention of DRI (enable or disable)

I think it's like with Linspire and 'log on as root only'...you do something once and correct it, but nobody will let you live it down...ever :D