xf86-video-intel 2.5.0 performance questions

[Halim Issa]

Thanks for quick and excellent answer - as always. This is one of many reasons 
why I always exclusively buy computers with pure Intel parts inside. 
Excellent products with excellent support.

On Tuesday 21 October 2008 23:27:41 Keith Packard wrote:
> The driver now defaults to synchronizing updates to the monitor refresh,
> so 60fps is expected. You can use the 'driconf' tool to change this if
> you want bigger numbers.

I guess that is just a numbers game and thus has nothing to do with the real 
performance of the card then - thanks for the insight!

One follow-up question though - with the new Intel driver (2.5.0) I get quite 
a few errors in dmesg/syslog - is this expected?

[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
pci 0000:00:02.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0
pci 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
pci 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0
[drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5
set status page addr 0x01fff000
[drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5
set status page addr 0x01fff000
[drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5
set status page addr 0x01fff000

(the unknown parameter 5 error repeated 8 times total)