Am Montag, 10. April 2017 schrieb Peter Laws:
> Hello.
> 
> After being on Ubuntu 14.1 LTS for years, I tried to update to 16.1.
> Install media Would.  Not.  See.  workstation's RAID so switched to
> CentOS 7 (all my production stuff uses that anyway).  Immediately
> installed TDE, of course, 14.04 I think.
> 
> Two issues with Konsole, possibly related to the video driver (card is
> an "AMD FirePro V4900" with their drivers).
> 
> First is that it seems to have trouble rendering the _ (underbar)
> character.  No problem leaving random underbars on the screen as text
> advances, but can't seem to put them in the right spot.  This is most
> noticeable on the last line of a screen full of text.
> 
> Second, and much more annoying is that when I start Chrome (not my
> primary browser but necessary for some sites), Konsole becomes
> very    sluggish.  Not 2400-baud modem slow, but that was the first
> thing I thought of.  Maybe more like 9600 ... or 14.4 ...
> 
> Ideas?
> 
> I do run yum update regularly.

"Possibly related to  the video driver" is a valid assumption :-) 

Please check, if you can get the open source drivers working at a decent speed first. If that fails, try the proprietary drivers.

Nik





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