KDE and hal

Installed Arch recently, using Gnome desktop, I decided to install KDE to have a look at it, did a pacman -S kde and got it installed, changed my rc.conf to kdm instead of gdm, saved changes an restarted, now hal will not load and kde does not load the desktop, switched back to gdm in the rc.conf file and gnome loads fine, what shoud I do to get kde to load the desktop?
Just so you know I am really new to Linux.
TIA to all who respond.

Thanks for your responses, most of them are over my head, I will do some reading.
@eDio, yes I am sure of that
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus hal network netfs crond alsa gdm)
I assumed hal was needed, when kde loads it just gives me a background and a terminal window.

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