There's someone on maemo forums that seems to have done something similar with you. Check the link, his post includes a download link of the compressed img....

No need to use another desktop manager due to this problem.As its clearly stated in this thread, all you need to do is type 2 commands into terminal and you are good to go.
On the other hand you can...

@fnord0
Maybe you should also add pete's info in your first post


Did the trick on a particular 64bit VM, where your solution didnt seem to work.

@fnord0
Thank you for the solution!Finally KDE is up!

@BeNeDeLuX
Thanx for pointing to that thread, finally kde x64 up and running!

Ι got the same issue on a vm. Normal mode cant get X to start, so i tried debug mode which got me with X up and kdm asking for password.
'toor' doesnt seem to work.

Pressing enter seems to do the trick. Thanks comaX

Edit:While waiting after the poweroff command, if you hit F4, you can see why its waiting
Please remove the disc and close the tray (if any)...

Same here on a vm with KDE 32 and 64 bit

Indeed. Tried that myself while trying to install kde 64bit on fusion. Got a headache looking like this, after typing prepare-kernel-sources
http://i52.tinypic.com/vxf874.png

Any idea whats going...

Since its Fusion, i m guessing he's on osx

One more thumbs up from me too!
Exceptional work!

A quite usefull post.Thanx:)

Did you entered

/etc/init.d/networking start
as it prompts you to in order to "To start Netoworking",right after you login?