Nice white pointer on a black screen.

[mykec]

Just bothered to download and install Mint 14 KDE. All went well until I actually logged into my account. After submitting my username and password, I am taken to a black screen with a white pointer. No more, no less. CTRL-Alt-Backspace returns me to the login screen. Very nice.

[caf4926]

You could try adding nomodeset to the boot argument
Once in to kde disable desktop effects and try booting normally

Or login at the prompt and try pressing
Alt +SHIFT+F12

[mykec]

Yeah, that worked! Thanks. I don't know why it's required yet but it did get me "in". I just finished burning a DVD w/ K3B and logged on here while that was happening to post this reply. Thanks!