Sung,

No, I can't use KDM. But I don't have to shut down NetBSD. From KDE, when I 
click the LOGOUT button under the PADLOCK button, it kills X and I fall back 
to the CLI. I can then SU to different user and call "startx" again. On 
XFree86 version 4, though, every time I do that, the CLI characters get 
dimmer and dimmer...to the point where eventually I must restart NetBSD so as 
to read the CLI. Or...I may sometimes just type very carefully so as to make 
no error while looking at a totally dimmed-out CLI.

Not the best, but beats a total reboot. I'll be following this thread in the 
hopes that you locate a real solution.

Regards,

Gan Starling
Kalamazoo MI

On Saturday 24 November 2001 04:12, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is not netbsd specific problem but has anyone been able to run kdm
> from kde2.2.1 instead of xdm?  Kdm runs but it doesn't seem to wanna let me
> into any X windows system such as kde itself.  I'm stuck with using xdm for
> login manager but tired of having to shutdown the system from console as a
> root.
>
> Your help appreciated.
> Sung