Xorg update produces blurry screen. [Solved (ish)]

[CrankyPenguin]

EDIT: I've since determined that my problem is not with the fonts per-se. It is, just more noticeable with them. During my recent x update I updated xorg-server and xorg. I now have the following:

• xorg-x11-7.4-r1
  
• xorg-server-1.10.4-r1
  
• xorg-drivers-1.10
  
• xf86-video-ati-6.14.0
  
• mesa-7.11
  

The problem is that since this update the whole screen is somewhat blurry. It looks like X is not setting the positioning of pixels exactly and the net result is that all fonts look badly anti-aliased and pictures, if one looks closely, are less sharp than they should be. I've systematically tried xf86-video-ati 6.4.1 and 6.4.2 with no change. 6.13.2 the only other current driver in portage failed to emerge due to a missing field in the api.

Thus far the only error message of any note is this:

[PaulBredbury]

[CrankyPenguin]

So I've followed what I believe to be the sum set of instructions from the thread you mentioned and, if anything, it got worse.

For the record I installed the lcd-filtering overlay and made the requisite updates to the packages discussed here: https://gitorious.org/lcd-filtering/pages/Home and here:http://blog.segfault.co.in/?p=192. I installed the .Xresources and local.conf fonts files as per my reading of the thread PaulBredbury mentioned. Now unless I missed something I don't quite see why the fonts should be worse not better.

Any suggestions?
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[CrankyPenguin]

It seems that the problem may not be the fonts but some issue with either my xorg drivers or some other issue. The issue is noticable with fonts but taking a screenshot and viewing it on another system shows that the fonts are, in fact, quite crisp and clear.

For future reference to font users what I did ultimately was follow the instructions located here: https://gitorious.org/lcd-filtering/pages/Home with two important caveats taken from herehttps://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-723341-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-500.html:

• Do not enable 10-autohint.conf as per a comment from Odysseus because it works at cross-purposes with the other choices.
  
• And as per the comments herehttp://blog.segfault.co.in/?p=192 be sure to emerge the code in the following order:

  Code:

  emerge -av1 freetype fontconfig libXft cairo

  
  

So with that in mind. Does anyone have any suggestions for a blurry screen? I have not changed my xorg server settings or made any other changes other than an update to xorg-server 1.110.4 and xorg-x11 7.4-r1.
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[CrankyPenguin]

So I managed to solve the problem in part although I am not sure of the solution. Ultimately I was forced to downgrade mesa from 7.11 to 7.10.2 and to blow away my existing xorg.conf file in order to replace it with a new auto-generated one. Oddly enough this one auto-generates the same setting that I had in my previous file so it isn't clear to me why it works now but it does.

In the process I also found it necessary to remove the lcd-filtering overlay. That was separate from the problem that I was having. I suspect that if I was connecting to my panel through a DVI connection it might look better but for some reason, once I had fixed the other problem, the hinted fonts still did not look quite right to me. It is possible that more tweaking might have fixed this but for the present I will run with the stock setup, and the work done by the authors of the lcd-filtering overlay has been quite impressive.
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