kde startup

"Thoth Serath" <[email protected]> Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:02:12 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.kde.non-linux
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

entered both:
% echo "exec startkde" > ~./xinitrc
got message
/root/.xinitrc: Too many arguments
and
ttyv8 "usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure
got message
ttyv8: Command not found