I'm not sure what you do mean by kdm-startup in recovery mode. Recovery- mode for me does mean sulogin, and this causes that not everything gets loaded to enable sane kdm-login.
Does kernel-2.6.17-7-generic still boot into sane state? Do you have vesafb (or another fb) for console enabled? If so, try to boot without it and tell me what is happening. -- [Regression] 2.6.17-8-generic makes X crash if DRI is enabled in xorg.conf https://launchpad.net/bugs/61979 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
