[Powertop] PowerTOP displays backlight twice

Tom Sherpen <tomsherpen at mail.com>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.powertop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

On my laptop, the display backlight is reported this:

See this screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/mP0H6hX.png 

Now I am confused. Does this mean that my actual display brightness is 4W or 2W and this is only a displaying error of PowerTOP?

If the latter applies, can this be fixed so that PowerTOP only recognises one display?

I think it is related to the fact that I have two entries in  */sys/class/backlight*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2014-04-03 07:15:06.796659660 +0200 intel_backlight -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0/card0-LVDS-1/intel_backlight lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2014-04-03 07:15:06.796659660 +0200 acpi_video0 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/backlight/acpi_video0
Any help would be appreciated!

Tom
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<span style='font-family:Verdana'><span style='font-size:12px'>Hello,<br /><br />On my laptop, the display backlight is reported this:<br /><br />See this screenshot: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/mP0H6hX.png" target="_blank">http://i.imgur.com/mP0H6hX.png</a><br /><br />Now I am confused. Does this mean that my actual display brightness is 4W or 2W and this is only a displaying error of PowerTOP?<br /><br />If the latter applies, can this be fixed so that PowerTOP only recognises one display?<br /><br />I think it is related to the fact that I have two entries in <b>/sys/class/backlight</b><br /> <pre><code>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2014-04-03 07:15:06.796659660 +0200 intel_backlight -&gt; ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0/card0-LVDS-1/intel_backlight 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2014-04-03 07:15:06.796659660 +0200 acpi_video0 -&gt; ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/backlight/acpi_video0</code></pre><br />Any help would be appreciated!<br /><br />Tom</span></span>
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