> with nvidia fully uninstalled? (even no libs being present?) Yes. However the rest of the desktop works just fine while the new Konqueror window is unresponsive. I can for instance still write this email inside my mail program. Humor me for a minute. If it were not a graphics card driver issue, how would I figure out what Konqueror is trying to do for that select() call? What service is behind file descriptor 7?