I'm greeted with a flashing underscore after the latest update, upon restart.
Removing traces of all nvidia-glx-drivers including mod-aliases made it possible proceed to with nouvaeu.
However the nouveau driver as last time used still doesn't recognize the monitor so it used a low resolution.
While removing and adding different versions of nvidia drivers it seemed as reverting to an old version didn't fix the problem.
Even having only the nvidia mod-aliases installed without drivers still prevented a normal boot, but maybe this is expected.
In this process of using eopkg it failed to uninstall some of the nvidia drivers once (it claimed some file were missing because they were manually removed)
This is probably what exacerbated the problem since having all nvidia-glx packages removed doesn't help anymore now.
Looking through dmesg it seemed as if a previous version 381.22 drive was somehow still installed.

Good night and good luck