Comment # 16 on bug 1172022 from Donald Curtis

My Desktop, initially, had font-smoothing issues with libfreetype6 version
2.10.1-lp151.4.3.1.

Hardware as follows:
Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Oland PRO [Radeon R7
240/340] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu
           v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.3 driver: amdgpu resolution:
1920x1080~60Hz
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon HD 8500 series (OLAND DRM 3.27.0
4.12.14-lp151.28.48-default LLVM 7.0.1)
           v: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.2
           direct render: Yes

xdpyinfo delivers the following information:
maximum request size:  16777212 bytes
motion buffer size:  256
bitmap unit, bit order, padding:    32, LSBFirst, 32
image byte order:    LSBFirst
number of supported pixmap formats:    7
supported pixmap formats:
    depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
    depth 4, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
    depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
    depth 15, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
    depth 16, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
    depth 24, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
    depth 32, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32

screen #0:
  dimensions:    1920x1080 pixels (508x285 millimeters)
  resolution:    96x96 dots per inch
  depths (7):    24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32