I have that same 2011, and had been using it headless as a third machine with VNC. A recent bad update screwed it up, and I was going to call it quits but then

I have that same 2011, and had been using it headless as a third machine with VNC. A recent bad update screwed it up, and I was going to call it quits but then found two work arounds. Temporary (actually fairly permanent, but if the laptop goes to sleep you run into the backlight problem where it won't turn on until you poweroff the laptop and then back on again) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=765954#c65 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=765954#c65 Permanent https://realmacmods.com/macbook-2011-radeon-gpu-disable/ https://realmacmods.com/macbook-2011-radeon-gpu-disable/