[Kieren]

I added that to /etc/modules and it did stay there after reboot but it didn't help at all

[coopstah13]

can you verify though, after rebooting that the previous command I posted returns output similar to

lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia               7851108  36 
i2c_core               22608  1 nvidia
agpgart                31216  2 nvidia,intel_agp

[Kieren]

nvidia 7822336 24
agpgart 35016 1 nvidia
i2c_core 26112 2 nvidia,i2c_nforce2

[bigtomrodney]

Try manually restarting X without reinstalling the nvidia driver -

sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart

[Kieren]

It kills the xserver and says kdm has started successfully but it doesn't load into my gui. Typing the command again boots it up fine.

I have noticed that typing startx boots into Gnome instead of KDE