I think this is the same problem that Mikael Pettersson. This occured at the insmod/modprobe point at the end of 'make install' with the nvidia driver. Similar happens on bootup while "Checking for new hardware" and while loading autofs. Attached is my config. Regards, David van Hoose Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 355200c0 printing eip: c012d23f *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[] Tainted: PF EFLAGS: 00010093 EIP is at __find_symbol+0x4b/0x92 eax: c0351a63 ebx: c040a4a0 ecx: 00000000 edx: e0b87df7 esi: 355200c0 edi: e0b87df7 ebp: dc4f9ed0 esp: dc4f9eb8 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process modprobe (pid: 911, threadinfo=dc4f8000 task=dd5c4d00) Stack: c0351a63 c03622b0 000006b6 e0b741dc e0bac080 00001521 dc4f9ef0 c012dd2e e0b87df7 dc4f9ee4 00000000 c0317e72 e0b741dc 000004cc dc4f9f20 c012df60 e09e99c4 00000015 e0b8472c e0b87df7 e0bac080 00000000 e0b8472c e089d000 Call Trace: [] resolve_symbol+0x2c/0x5e [] simplify_symbols+0xa2/0xf4 [] load_module+0x42a/0x804 [] do_mmap_pgoff+0x4c6/0x5d0 [] sys_init_module+0x80/0x1b0 [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Code: ac ae 75 08 84 c0 75 f8 31 c0 eb 04 19 c0 0c 01 85 c0 74 25