I can confirm this bug as I had the same result using the restricted driver manager on a fresh feisty installation. I uninstalled the driver using the RDM them proceded to install the drivers manually. Manual installation did not fix the issue and neither did reconfiguring xorg using dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. The kernel module continued to refuse to load forcing me to do a fresh installation.
After doing a fresh installation I installed the nvidia drivers both manually and with Automatix and this bug was not reproduced either time.
I can confirm this bug as I had the same result using the restricted driver manager on a fresh feisty installation. I uninstalled the driver using the RDM them proceded to install the drivers manually. Manual installation did not fix the issue and neither did reconfiguring xorg using dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. The kernel module continued to refuse to load forcing me to do a fresh installation.
After doing a fresh installation I installed the nvidia drivers both manually and with Automatix and this bug was not reproduced either time.