Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package

  1. Bug #946116
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 946116

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Peter Belew (peterbe) wrote :

Apparently this problem is already known:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132

Since I'm able to boot to a shell, what I just did was to add nomodeset to /etc/default/grub and run update-grub, as described on the ubuntuforums page above. So now the altered line in /etc/default/grub looks like

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"