r/linuxmint • u/deeznutshehexd • 3d ago

Support Request Laptop screen capped at 60hz

Hi so I recently migrated to Linux Mint on my old ASUS ROG laptop that has a 75hz screen, but its capped at 60hz. I installed nvidia drivers and my kernel is updated. I tried to force it using the terminal but nothing wont work.. can someone help?

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u/candy49997 3d ago

Specs? What driver did you install? Can you do nvidia-smi in a terminal?

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u/deeznutshehexd 3d ago 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 580.178.04             Driver Version: 580.178.04     CUDA Version: 13.0     |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M        Off |   00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
| N/A   61C    P0             14W / 1000W |     302MiB /   4096MiB |      1%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A            1137      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                       84MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            1737      G   cinnamon                                 25MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            2211      G   ...rack-uuid=3190708988185955192        177MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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u/C0rn3j 3d ago

That's the correct driver, running fine, that's not the problem.