Nouveau unknown chipset at install

Question

I'm trying to install Ubuntu version 14.10 on my new computer. It's a fresh build with nothing installed yet. You can see a list of the hardware here. At first I had difficulty with the UEFI boot, but I went into the BIOS and set everything that I could to "legacy". Now, when I try to boot, I get the following error:

[ 2.817690 nouveau E[ DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] unknown chipset, 0x124020a1

[ 2.817724 nouveau E[ DRM] failed to create 0x80000080, -22

I tried booting in nomodeset, which I thought did something to fix that, but it didn't work. I suspect it has something to do with not having any drivers yet, but I didn't get an optical drive. I was planning on just downloading them. What can I do?

I have the same issue. Have you managed to finally install Ubuntu and drivers? — jesper, Mar 28 '15 at 21:15
http://askubuntu.com/questions/598417/nouveau-unknown-chipset-on-installer — jedi, Apr 13 '15 at 07:24

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '15 at 07:51

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Do a Ctrl+Alt+F1

login and do

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo ubuntu-drivers devices

see what is recommended

sudo apt-get install nvidia-xxx (xxx is your recommended driver)

reboot.

edited Apr 13 '15 at 07:51

A.B.

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answered Mar 01 '15 at 15:05

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Nouveau unknown chipset at install

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