I found that window managers on Debian wouldnt start. After the login screen I would be taken back to the login screen. I had a hunch that it could be a faulty nvidia module, since I’ve had issues with it in the past even on Ubuntu.
So, I tried to remove it.
First, I tried the usual commands to remove a module:
modprobe -r nvidia modprobe -rf nvidia rmmod nvidia
All of these commands were telling me that the module was in use and couldnt be removed. So I tried to find the service or app using it, to try to kill it.
lsmod | grep 'nvidia'
instead of listing an app/service, showed a number 25, which apparently means 25 processes are using it (Not sure).
Anyway, since kdm was already running in the background, I thought I could kill it and unload the module. I was right.
service kdm stop
An lsmod showed that nvidia wasnt in memory (0)
Now I was able to remove the module with:
rmmod nvidia
I then proceeded to recompile a new kernel module for nvidia
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