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Bitten. Wasted my weekend on it.

I've been running various kernels & nvidia drivers for a long time, even
switching hardware along the way, without any issue whatsoever and out
of the blue i get that oops. The funniest part is i cannot get rid of
it: i've tried every available kernels (from 2.6.32 up to 2.6.37) and
drivers (from 195.* up to 270.*), then downgraded every remotely related
packages (xorg*, libs and more), yet it still oops. It's infuriating.

As i knew my hardware & system were just fine, out of desperation, i've
given a fresh ubuntu 10.10 live cd a try... booted, jockeyed and no
fuss, no muss, got a working 260.19.06. Revived by such wondrous sight,
i've exported its magic list of package/version and applied that (well,
part of it) to my dysfunctional system. No luck, still oopsing. Noticed
that now almost similar systems produced different binaries. So i went
medieval and simply grafted the live-cd's module binary. Success.

Conclusion: apparently some maverick update screws the build system for
that module, even if the exact reason/culprit still escapes me right now
(and i have downgraded just about everything at this point...).

TL; DR: for a quick fix, use a fresh live cd to produce a sane module.

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Title:
  Loading the nvidia driver causes kernel oops in maverick, natty