Comment 2 for bug 87986

I can confirm. I went through the files installed, and it looks as if the wrapper is never compiled- there is no nvidia.ko (though there is a nvidiafb.ko and a nvidia-agp.ko).

I tried to switch from a custom-compiled version to the vanilla Ubuntu version, and this came up, so it may be that some sort of on-install check is failing, thus causing the module to not compile.