Hi there, linux newby here.

As you could probably guess, my vga isn't working properly.

lspci commands this:

03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Picasso (rev c1)

Picasso is a vga compatible controller for mint and ubuntu. I have linux kali.

Any keying in does not render on the VGA card at all. Neither does scrolling. At times the VGA card will not render the whole screen.

Any suggestions, general direction, or even commands for how to properly remove this driver or forcibly write on top of this driver?????

Mind you, the AMD driver site indicates no debian driver or plug ins. Am I going to have to write the plug ins and driver on a Debian system?

Nonsense. Picasso is the name of the device, has nothing to do with operating system.
What Debian version is Kali based on? It seems Picasso GPUs came out 2019, Linux generally needs a year to catch up with new hardware, Debian stable needs 2 years.

Upstream the name of the correct X driver package for your APU/GPU is xf86-video-amdgpu, and its name is amdgpu. Likely Kali uses the Debian/Ubuntu name xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu. If output of 'cat /proc/cmdline' reports nomodeset or radeon.modeset=0 use of this driver and the kernel driver of same name is blocked, leaving your GPU running on a crude fallback driver, either FBDEV or VESA, that doesn't work competently with a Ryzen. We need more information to be of more help. Start by pasting in here output from

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Neither commands were found. There is a 20.10 release on AMDs website for Linux GNU Ubuntu 18.04. I tried to install individual packages but it could not access the file or directory. I don't think it would work even if i got that to work simply because the fork that Kali has with Ubuntu. I am not sure what Debian stable it has either. All i know is that its a Radeon Vega 10 (I think). It will take some time for Debian to catch up. I made a copy of the sources.list file as a backup and update some of the experimental packages from Debian. Sometimes the root user password shows when accessing it through terminal. I was wondering if there was a more recent amdgpu driver on debian i could get it through that repository.

If Kali repo configuration cannot provide inxi, get it directly from its source. It's just an information gathering and presentation script. If pastebinit cannot be used, you can use a web browser to upload /var/log/Xorg.0.log to any number of hosting sites designed for such purposes, such as https://pastebin.com/. I don't use Kali, so cannot be more specific about any quirks or weaknesses that present obstacles to getting help when needed. If you're new to Linux, Kali is a poor choice for a first distro. If your hardware is newer than a few months after your distro is released, you're made an unfortunate distro choice. With recently introduced hardware, a very recent, or rolling release, or development version of a distro should be your choice, such as Debian Sid or Bullseye, or Fedora Rawhide, or openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Kali repos provide inxi and pastebinit.

@OP. If you cannot install the packages above from Kali repos then you haven't configured your system to do so. From the Kali docs:
+1 to choose another distro.

It doesn't pixelate anymore after re-installing the operating system. I don't know what changed.