Hello,

I am not quite amateur at Linux. I have Mint and Windows as well, but am trying to learn Kali as well. I've tried a couple different things pertaining to the VGA pixelation in Kali. I cannot seem to understand and am exhausted by reinstalling Kali so many times. Finally troubleshooted the aurio, don't know how i did that lol

Anyway about the VGA pixelation:

lspci -nn | grep VGA

03:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Picasso [1002:15d8] (rev c1)

Follow this to try to install driver for Radeon, its unstable but covers Picasso:

https://packages.debian.org/sid/firmware-amd-graphics

There are three files: 'control' 'md5sums' 'postinst'

./md5sums

permission denied I don't know what maintainer scripts are yet or where to look in which amdgpu directory

What is the next step?

I am guessing I have to build the debian package and its dependencies?

Problem Solved:

It had nothing to do with that, no new driver necessary, its a problem with xorg configuration. The configuration instructions are here:

lspci -nnk | grep -i -EA3 "3d|display|vga"

ls -l /etc/X11

mkdir ~/xorg-backup
sudo mv -v /etc/X11/xorg.conf ~/xorg-backup/
sudo mv -v /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d ~/xorg-backup/

sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Device"
Identifier "Radeon"
Driver "radeon"
Option "TearFree" "on"
EndSection


sudo mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-amdgpu.conf

Section "Device"
Identifier "AMD"
Driver "amdgpu"
Option "TearFree" "true"
EndSection

Courtesy per Neon Cipher on Youtube

Read the Kali links in my posting signature. Kali is for experienced Linux users, and then to be used for security and pentesting only...not for daily use. Their own website tells you this. If you already have Mint, why are you wanting to install Kali?? There is no 'learn Kali'...it is only another Linux distro, that has built-in tools/customizations for security and pentesting. There is nothing to 'learn', except for those tools...which you can also install on Mint.

WHY do you want to use Kali? And is there a reason you can't load it in Virtualbox, and use it as intended???

Half of this makes no sense at all.
But you apparently did manage to create 2 new .conf files in /etc/X11, and that apparently helped.

Are you saying you're a Linux professional?
I've been using Linux for 7 years and still don't call myself anything but an amateur, although I do make a little money with it.