Blank screen in Macbook Pro

I have a 44 month old macbook Pro. Yesterday, after an update, the screen stopped working. The laptop otherwise boots normally, and I can get into it using ssh. Looking at the kernel log, I can see a message
May 1 13:23:51 Macintosh kernel[0]: IG: Invalid firmware max backlight setting
May 1 13:23:51 Macintosh kernel[0]: IntelMemory::init
May 1 13:23:51: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
May 1 13:23:51 Macintosh kernel[0]: InitPool: offset= 0x08000000 size = 0x08000000
May 1 13:23:53 Macintosh kernel[0]: display: Not usable
Please help with this.

Did you find the string "Invalid firmware max backlight setting" ? , so it must be a invalid settings for your backlight which is on your MBP. I thought that problem like a backlight or Display Driver(Which You update). please try reinstalling the software or turn down the brightness. Sorry I'm a fresh university student in Taiwan. If my English is wrong, please reply me. Thank you. God bless you

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