Any ideas?

glxgears seems to be woefully inadequate.

xengine and xbench won't compile.

UT is not an option for everybody.

Ideas?

Results of a search on '3dmark' via google.com/linux:

http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Wine_..._in_3DMark_06_
http://wiki.winehq.org/BenchMark-0.9.6

It's not open source, and has to run in Wine, but possibly a start. I doubt the results would be comparable to what you see posted on websites like tomshardware or anandtech, but under the same Wine build it might be usable.

It's not something I'd want to mess with, but the first thing that came to mind when I saw your thread was "I wonder if 3DMark is available for linux?"

Thanks, but I'm not looking for a linux/wine benchmark. That has too many layers/processes running for any type of real results. And in addition, I can already do that with the plethora of benchmarks for Windows.

I'm looking for a Linux video benchmark tool/app that will be more accurate, or at least device independant, plus I really prefer OSS.

Okay CW, I haven't forgotten about your question. I ran across an article at linuxhardware.org that included some video benchmarks. The article's about the new Intel Core 2 CPU's, but I noticed they had some native Linux video benchmarks via SPECViewperf.

I agree with your desire for a FOSS app, and unfortunately this one isn't. It is a free (although sizeable - 600MB) download, but they require you to fill in a short survey before downloading. No personal or contact info is required, just questions about why you want the benchmark and what OS you use.

Get it at SPEC's download page. I haven't tried it yet, so let us know how it works if you use it, or have found a better alternative.

smooth...
Thanks for the link SpelledJ, as I'm pretty interested in native benchmarking too.
Let's see how this turns out to be

.::currently downloading::.