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 Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs