diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video.c b/drivers/acpi/video.c
index b5e35cd559eac130437657834aed2aa8ca1e74a4..970c01a7f8f4437fe2378234803523026e99709c 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/video.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/video.c
@@ -730,11 +730,40 @@ static void acpi_video_bus_find_cap(struct acpi_video_bus *video)
 static int acpi_video_bus_check(struct acpi_video_bus *video)
 {
 	acpi_status status = -ENOENT;
-
+	long device_id;
+	struct device *dev;
+	struct acpi_device *device;
 
 	if (!video)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	device = video->device;
+
+	status =
+	    acpi_evaluate_integer(device->handle, "_ADR", NULL, &device_id);
+
+	if (!ACPI_SUCCESS(status))
+		return -ENODEV;
+
+	/* We need to attempt to determine whether the _ADR refers to a
+	   PCI device or not. There's no terribly good way to do this,
+	   so the best we can hope for is to assume that there'll never
+	   be a video device in the host bridge */
+	if (device_id >= 0x10000) {
+		/* It looks like a PCI device. Does it exist? */
+		dev = acpi_get_physical_device(device->handle);
+	} else {
+		/* It doesn't look like a PCI device. Does its parent
+		   exist? */
+		acpi_handle phandle;
+		if (acpi_get_parent(device->handle, &phandle))
+			return -ENODEV;
+		dev = acpi_get_physical_device(phandle);
+	}
+	if (!dev)
+		return -ENODEV;
+	put_device(dev);
+
 	/* Since there is no HID, CID and so on for VGA driver, we have
 	 * to check well known required nodes.
 	 */