Reports

I did

dpkg -l | grep nvidia
dpkg -l | grep nvidia-driver

to get lists of nvidia related drivers. The one by one did

apt purge [packagename]

(sometimes had to change the order of which package was being removed)

then did

apt autoclean 
apt autoremove

...to clean up any dependencies that were hanging around

re-ran

dpkg -l | grep nvidia
dpkg -l | grep nvidia-driver

to make sure list was empty then rebooted then followed

to reinstall drivers.

Then did a clean install of comfyUI

Everything seems to be working again.

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