Thanks for your feedback Anders. I tried to raise to vmalloc 256MB which made the kernel virtual address space exhaustion error go away - unfortunately it brought the kernel oops back :-( So the kernel oops had only been absent because the driver never got loaded completely...
I attached the kern.log file for the record. / Jakob ** Attachment added: "kern.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/607399/+attachment/1702795/+files/kern.log -- Loading the nvidia driver causes kernel oops in maverick https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/607399 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

