Resolution locked at 768p

[unchatnoire]

So, I've been looking around this board for a bit to help me with a solution to get the Proprietary Nvidia graphics driver to function properly without much results. I've tried switch around to a few other 5.15 kernels and Nvidia Drivers already and so far that hasn't solved the dilemma. Here's the result when I type in inxi -Fxxxrz to terminal,

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System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-101-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.4.0
    Desktop: Cinnamon 6.0.4 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
    Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: All Series v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: Z97-E/USB 3.1 v: Rev X.0x
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 0503
    date: 05/20/2015
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-4790K bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    smt: enabled arch: Haswell rev: 3 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 800 high: 801 min/max: 800/4600 cores: 1: 800 2: 800
    3: 800 4: 800 5: 801 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 bogomips: 64001
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3060] vendor: Gigabyte driver: N/A
    pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2487
    class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: nouveau,vesa
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting gpu: N/A display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1024x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 271x203mm (10.7x8.0")
    s-diag: 339mm (13.3")
  Monitor-1: default res: 1024x768 hz: 76 size: N/A
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7 256 bits)
    v: 4.5 Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.2 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 9 Series Family HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:8ca0
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228b class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: Logitech H390 headset with microphone type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 3-14:4 chip-ID: 046d:0a8f
    class-ID: 0300
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-101-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I218-V vendor: ASUSTeK driver: e1000e v: kernel
    port: f040 bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:15a1 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Device-2: ASUSTek 802.11ax WLAN Adapter type: USB driver: N/A
    bus-ID: 3-13:3 chip-ID: 0b05:1a62 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.73 TiB used: 65.74 GiB (2.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM003-1ER162 size: 931.51 GiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: HP51 scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Toshiba model: MQ04UBD200 size: 1.82 TiB
    type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> scheme: MBR
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 268.32 GiB used: 17.53 GiB (6.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 96 MiB used: 31.1 MiB (32.4%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda2
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: 2238 apt: 2232 flatpak: 6
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graphics-drivers-ppa-jammy.list
    1: deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/graphics-drivers-ppa-jammy.gpg] https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu jammy main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com virginia main upstream import backport
    2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
Info:
  Processes: 274 Uptime: 4m wakeups: 0 Memory: 15.55 GiB
  used: 1.54 GiB (9.9%) Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers:
  gcc: 11.4.0 alt: 11/12 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: gnome-terminal
  inxi: 3.3.13

Please, someone tell my in layman's terms what am I doing wrong to get my PC up to gaming status?

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Please, someone tell my in layman's terms what am I doing wrong to get my PC up to gaming status?

Welcome to the forum, unchatnoire.

The short answer is you have no graphics drivers loaded. That is explained in Tips for Troubleshooting Graphics Issues (including external monitors not working) which is a sticky at the top of the Graphics Cards & Monitors forum.

Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3060] vendor: Gigabyte driver: N/A
pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2487
class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: nouveau,vesa
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting gpu: N/A display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1024x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 271x203mm (10.7x8.0")
s-diag: 339mm (13.3")
Monitor-1: default res: 1024x768 hz: 76 size: N/A
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7 256 bits)
v: 4.5 Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.2 direct render: Yes

The proprietary graphics drivers are available in Driver Manager. I see you added the graphics-driver-ppa so please tell us what you have tried so we can help you fix your system.

There are two steps with a proprietary Nvidia driver. The first step is using Driver Manager to install the driver. The second step is having the driver load at boot time. If you have secure boot enabled and you did not create keys (MOK) or you installed the wrong driver, then the driver will not load at boot time.

Is secure boot enabled? You can check by running the following in a terminal

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mokutil --sb-state

If you installed a driver, please provide the output of

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dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia

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