Mandrake 9/NVidia failed allocation

Haven't found any references elsewhere to the same problem: on installing the drivers from the tar.gz files and setting up XF86Config-4 as directed, I'm getting the following errors in /var/log/messages:

Oct 13 04:12:45 endor kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
VM: killing process kdeinit

Getting a large number of similar errors, and the overall result is that X is failing to start.

Any suggestions for how to fix this problem, or failing that, revert to the old drivers that worked before?

[bwkaz]

How much memory do you have? How big is your Linux swap partition? That might be a message from the OOM killer...

(The OOM killer is the piece of the kernel that starts killing processes when you run out of virtual memory. Virtual memory is real memory + swap space)

768MB of memory and a roughly comparable amount of swap space. Upgrading version 9.0 to itself seems to have mysteriously fixed the problem, though, and the drivers now work fine - it's great to see my TuxRacer FPS go from 0 to infinite.

[xspec]

now i have this similar problem with mdk 9.0 & GeForce 2 MX...

Jan 27 13:48:13 riidankylvaja kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1f0/0)
Jan 27 13:48:15 riidankylvaja kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
Jan 27 13:48:15 riidankylvaja kernel: VM: killing process sdlquake2
Jan 27 13:48:17 riidankylvaja kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
Jan 27 13:48:17 riidankylvaja kernel: VM: killing process X
Jan 27 13:48:17 riidankylvaja kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0)
Jan 27 13:48:17 riidankylvaja kernel: VM: killing process firewalld

has anyone found a way to fix this?

[xspec]

so nobody has idea what's wrong? maybe i'm forced to try some another distro. that rebooting stuff really is pain in the ass.