After kernel update video driver is failing

[finny388]

There was a kernel earlier this week.
I waited a day or few before the required restarting

When I finally did resolution was lower and I found it is no longer using my video card (GTX 970)

In System Settings/Display and Monitor there are no settings: just a box in the middle that says "default" and has three icons below it.
In Sys Settings/Driver Manager "Using X.Org X server -- Nouveau..." is set.
When I click to select "NVIDIA binary driver - version 349.12..." it and click Apply it refreshes goes back to x.org sometimes, other times it appears to keep the setting.

In nvidia-settings it has stripped down to Application Profiles and nvidia-settings Config on the left.

So nowhere can I find a resolution setting. I tried reinstalling with "sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-settings" but no luck.

here's my result of

sudo lshw -C display

*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GM204 [GeForce GTX 970]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f6000000-f6ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:f7000000-f707ffff
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 06
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:f7400000-f77fffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:f000(size=64)

[finny388]

Well I don't know what to say.
I tried rebooting before but just did that now and all is back to normal.
nvidia-settings is back with all the settings
and lshw now shows:
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0

I just hope it stays this way