nouveau driver issue when trying to boot ubuntu

Question

i just installed ubuntu, and it says nouveau failed to idle channel 1 and 2. it also says nouveau playlist update failed. i believe this is a video card driver problem. what can i to to resolve this?

other info

intel i5 2500k evga nvidia geforce gtx 560 se dual booting with windows 7 professional used wubi to install

i took a photo of the command line text which i can upload if needed

Solution

Problem solved. Needed to add nomodeset to the boot parameters.

Here's a link to a thread with solution: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132

Comments

[Admin]

Try latest 3.6-rc4 kernel, should be fixed there.

[kevin chapman]

thanks for the reply. im a ubuntu noob, im not sure exactly how to do that. when these errors are being displayed, its a running process, where i cant enter anything. is there some key i should hold/press when i try to boot?

[Jason Southwell]

Please tell the OP exactly how you did this, otherwise this answer is useless.