Multiple video backlight devices on Dell laptop

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Hi,

I have a Dell Vostro 3560 laptop, with hybrid graphics (intel + radeon).

This exposes 3 backlight devices - acpi_video0, acpi_video1, and
intel_backlight. Only the intel_backlight/brightness file actually
changes the backlight. Is this a kernel bug, or should userspace
'know' which backlight file to use based on which graphics device is
active? XFCE picks the first one it finds (acpi_video0), which doesn't
work.

I was using acpi_backlight=vendor, but some recent changes to memory
allocation seem to have exposed that that SMM method is not safe to
use with EFI... (see http://marc.info/?t=138811462300004&r=1&w=2)

I've uploaded my ACPI tables to http://members.optusnet.com.au/bbaetz1/acpi.tgz

Bradley
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