I see that you have an NVIDIA card and you talked about an update/upgrade to your software, but you didn’t mention the version of NVIDIA driver being used.
I would strongly recommend having a look at the following post and consider the offerings regarding how to manage/avoid NVIDIA driver pitfalls, which are triggered by various update/upgrades, unless you take full control of what can and cannot be updated with your NVIDIA drivers.
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(The “550” reference was from a situation where the 580 was installed, created major issues, and the User had difficulties to locate a non-LTS driver from NVIDIA.)
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NVidia "550" Driver Missing after OS Update - #20 by ericmarceau
If you are ever wondering which Desktop Manager you are using, or how the OS is actually handling your Graphics environment, you can run the following command:
inxi -c2 -SGxxx
which will give you a report that looks like this:
System:
Host: OasisMega1 Kernel: 6.8.0-45-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
Desktop: MATE 1.26.0 info: mate-panel wm: marco 1.26.0 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
Distro: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD RS780D [Radeon HD 3300] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: radeon
v: kernel ports: active: VGA-1 empty: DVI-D-1 bus-ID: 01:05.0
chip-ID: 1002:9614 class-ID: 0300
Display: server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 compositors: 1: Picom v: 9 2: marco
v: 1.26.0 driver: X: loaded: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
gpu: radeon display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1440x900 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 381x238mm (15.0x9.4")
s-diag: 449mm (17.7")
Monitor-1: VGA-0 mapped: VGA-1 model: HP w1707 serial: CNC918Q23B
res: 1440x900 hz: 60 dpi: 99 size: 370x230mm (14.6x9.1")
diag: 436mm (17.2") modes: max: 1440x900 min: 720x400
OpenGL: renderer: AMD RS780 (DRM 2.50.0 / 6.8.0-45-generic LLVM 15.0.7)
v: 3.3 Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.3 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes