Let me prefix my question with the fact that I had KDE and kdm up and 
running just fine.  Something got stuck in KDE, I rebooted, and now I cannot 
get it back.  I tried to reinstall KDE, I have even tried a complete 
reinstall of NetBSD.  I cannot figure out the exact sequence of steps I 
performed to get KDE and kdm to work the first time.

Therefore, my question is what steps do you follow to install and configure 
KDE/kdm?  Please do not ask me to upgrade or recompile or anything like 
that; if you use KDE/kdm, how do you go about installing it on a brand new 
box?

Here are the steps I followed unsuccessfully:

1.  Boot off CD 8 of 8 from the 1.6.1 i386pkg
2.  Configure network settings within sysinst
3.  install
3.a.  use a default disklabel "standard with X"
3.b.  full install -- all sets
4.  reboot and login as root
5.  xf86cfg to configure X
6.  startx
7.  pkg_add kde -- should install 3.0.5.1 from disk 1 of 8 of 1.6.1 i368pkg
(7.a. complains about ghost script, but it did the first time as well; I 
know I can fix it by installing ghostscript from some other CD first; so I 
am not concerned)
8.  reboot and login as root
9.  startx
10.  startkde from within X and personalize KDE -- this works, but it is not 
as good as kdm
11.  reboot and login as root
12.  kdm

When I attempt to login to kdm, it just brings me right back to the login 
screen.  Eventually, after a couple attempts, it goes back to the prompt 
stating it restarted too fast or something like that.

Note that if I run xdm instead; it, too, seems to have a problem as it will 
prompt for a session, and the only option is "fail safe" or something.  When 
I select this option, the screen is empty with just the "X" mouse pointer.

If you use KDE/kdm, what steps do you follow?

Thanks,
Chris.

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