System:
CPU: Intel i7 7700K @ 4.5GHz
GPU: Asus STRIX GTX 1060 6gb OC (Republic of Gamers)
Ram: Gskill 16GB DDR4
Monitor: Acer 27" 144 Hz
Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS on Samsung EVO 250GB SSDFresh installation on 3/11/2024. The only additional things I installed were Steam, Overwatch 2, ckb-next (Corsair mouse & keyboard software) and Nvidia graphics drivers (535 was the most current available driver for my card).
Everything worked fine 2 days ago (3/11/2024). I didn't boot on 3/12, then on 3/13 I accepted the latest automatic updates. They installed successfully, but after rebooting I was unable to type my password into the Plasma login screen. I can move the mouse cursor but cannot click anything. Keyboard is lit but does not respond.
If I reboot again and select the previous kernel version from the grub menu then I can log in, but Overwatch gets poor framerate - 2 days ago I was holding 144 fps nearly constantly, now it dips into the 30s.
There is a new driver available for my card, the Nvidia 545 driver, and I did install that after logging in with the previous kernel version.
When I type
nvidia-smiit returns "NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running."
To be sure, I typed
sudo ubuntu-drivers install nvidia:545and that returns "All the available drivers are already installed."
SO the actual question: Should I mess with this, or hope for an update to Ubuntu in the near future that may correct it? I haven't seen this problem in my searches, but apologies if I missed it somewhere. I'm happy to answer questions if info is missing.