Ubuntu 8.04 (64-bit) I can only boot in Recovery mode.

[Dogs Rule]

Thanks for the responce, Epsilon72.
When you go into Ubuntu's recovery mode, one of the three options that pop up is to have it auto-reconfigure Xorg(it saves your previous settings in a backup file). Maybe I could mess around with the Xorg config, but with Ubuntu, I never have had a need to as the default settings it chooses for me have always worked since 2005 at least. (The same cannot be said for when I was trying to run BSD's on my laptops which is the last time I had to change a Xorg configuration.)

I am pretty sure it is the video driver since it is not lauched in recovery mode. To answer your questions about Ubuntu's recovery mode, it fully boots the gui( gnome) and everything seems to run completely normally at normal performance. The only thing I'm trully lacking is the video card and the fancy "visual effects" are turned off. Neither of which is important to me since I don't really care about eye candy in computing and I don't use the computer for gaming. So the GNOME gui loads fully (for my needs) without any performance issues.

I updated from a fully up to date version of the last release (7.10) using the update manager. The only problem that occured during the update was a problem with the network time protocol, which I've reinstalled from scratch since.

I guess I'll have to live with the few extra button clicks that recovery mode necessitates. since to be honest, the only thing I appear to miss is esthetics(eye candy) I don't care for.

If I really get annoyed and have the time, I'll scour the Official forums like you said. I was just hoping someone here could tell me if recovery mode was really more gimped than it appeared to be. (But since I'm satisfied running recovery mode, it doesn't really matter) :)