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After uninstalling nvidia drivers and existing (sudo killall Xorg) Xorg does not start any more.

Running sddm & simply gives this in output and exits:

Aborted

If running Xorg manually I see this error in log:

vesa: Ignoring device with a bound kernel driver
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It looks like NVIDIA does not handle uninstall properly, it leaves its kernel modules enabled:

# lsmod |grep nvidia
nvidia_uvm             45056  0
nvidia              10584064  1 nvidia_uvm
drm                   483328  5 nvidia,nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_core               94208  6 i2c_algo_bit,nvidia,nouveau,psmouse,drm_kms_helper,drm

Run this to disable them:

rmmod nvidia_uvm
rmmod nvidia

Enable nouveau driver (which is also not done by nvidia drivers uninstaller):

modprobe nouveau

Now can run sddm &

Alternatively, you could have restarted the system, but hey, it's not macos.

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