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I have setup Ubuntu 22.04 recently on an old Late-2012 iMac, which I have setup to be a simple media server.

Everything is working well, but I can't seem to get the display to turn completely off. When the display powers off after inactivity, I can still see some backlighting, and it doesn't appear to be actually off.

I have followed the instructions here as well:

unable to power off macbook display w/ ubuntu server

and here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/fkql9a/turn_off_display_backlight_ubuntu_servermacbook/

If I run the command setterm —blank force, the screen does go black, but I can always still see some backlighting.

Any thoughts on how to get the iMac screen to complete turn off?

Rohit Gupta
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