Xorg fails to launch login upon driver installation on Debian 12

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Previously, I had a driver+cuda installation working with my GeForce GTX 1080 on Debian 12. It stopped working one day after my desktop suddenly powered off instantly. I had to uninstall all drivers and cuda to get it working again. After the following reinstallation steps, I am about at the same spot. I am unable to have Xorg start the login screen. Instead, I get the white screen: “Oh no! Something went wrong”. There seems to not be any noticeable issues in my Xorg.0.log or Xorg.1.log files.

$ lspci | grep -e VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 [GeForce GTX 1080] (rev a1)

$ inxi -Fxxxz
System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-21-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    Desktop: GNOME v: 43.9 tk: GTK v: 3.24.38 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM3 v: 43.0
    Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i5-6400 bits: 64 type: MCP
    smt: <unsupported> arch: Skylake-S rev: 3 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
    L3: 6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2175 high: 2944 min/max: 800/3300 cores: 1: 2535 2: 2944
    3: 2423 4: 800 bogomips: 21599
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 [GeForce GTX 1080] driver: nouveau v: kernel
    arch: Pascal pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-1,HDMI-A-1
    empty: DP-2,DP-3,DVI-D-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1b80 class-ID: 0300
    temp: 43.0 C

$ sudo cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main

Installation Steps

$ wget http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/debian12/x86_64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
$ sudo apt install /tmp/nvidia/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
$ sudo apt install cuda-toolkit-12-3
$ sudo apt isntall nvidia-driver firmware-misc-nonfree

Adding CUDA to path

$ sudo nano /etc/profile.d/cuda-12.3.sh
export CUDA_VERSION="12.3"
export CUDA_HOME="/usr/local/cuda-${CUDA-VERSION}"
export PATH="${CUDA_HOME}/bin${PATH:+:${PATH}}"

Ensuring GDM3 Uses X11 instead of Wayland

$ cat /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf
# GDM configuration storage
#
# See /usr/share/gdm/gdm.schemas for a list of available options.

[daemon]
# Uncomment the line below to force the login screen to use Xorg
 WaylandEnable=false

# Enabling automatic login
#  AutomaticLoginEnable = true
#  AutomaticLogin = user1

# Enabling timed login
#  TimedLoginEnable = true
#  TimedLogin = user1
#  TimedLoginDelay = 10

[security]

[xdmcp]

[chooser]

[debug]
# Uncomment the line below to turn on debugging
# More verbose logs
# Additionally lets the X server dump core if it crashes
#Enable=true

Ensuring nouveau is Disabled

 sudo cat /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-blacklists-nouveau.conf 
# You need to run "update-initramfs -u" after editing this file.

# see #580894
blacklist nouveau

nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (310.9 KB)
Xorg.0.log (39.2 KB)
Xorg.1.log (38.4 KB)

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You seem to have virtualgl installed which changed the group ownership of the gpu device nodes to “vglusers”. So your user will have to be member of that group to use graphics.

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Thank you so much! This worked.

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