New rig

[mandrake]

Installing the driver is not enough, because you have to remove/replace K A L I default drivers and K A L I default configuration, too.
To figure out, how this can be done, I recommend to install a fresh UBUNTU with all dependencies and drivers you need to run hashcat successfully.
If that is working as expected, take a look at UBUNTUs configs and copy them to USB drive.
Now install K A L I and compare K A L I configs and installed drivers/tools with UBUNTU configs and drivers/tools.
Than remove unwanted drivers/tools from K A L I, install missing drivers/tools and reconfigure K A L I.
Since both of them are Debian based, I'm sure you'll find some similarities.

Folders/files that are worth to take a closer look inside:
/boot/grub/grub.cfg -> kernel boot parameters
/etc/X11/ -> x11 configuration
/etc/udev/rules.d/ -> additional udev rules
/etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service.d/ -> display manager settings
if you use lightdm as login manager (mandatory to configure by hand if you got a black login screen):
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

/var/log/Xorg.0.log -> x11 "error" log
dmesg ring log

Ok so I installed Ubuntu fresh install like you suggested and went through a few things. First of all Ubuntu picked up the onboard AMD gpu on the mobo and the drivers are working with that and i can adjust the resolution and everything now. It did this automatically. I checked xorg and the 6900xt doesnt even show up. I tried to manually install the drivers and followed the but it just keeps returning that the location doesn't exist so I am doing something wrong. bit confused on which drivers I need to actually install. I think first good trouble shooting thing should be to get hashcat running with this card with ubuntu fully first before I even touch anything with The-Distribution-Which-Does-Not-Handle-OpenCL-Well (Kali). A bit lost atm because I am following guides but can't even get the card to show up. I also tried linut mint off of live iso, the drivers manager wouldn't pick up the card and in sysinfo it shows the onboard graphics only.

I am wondering if this is purely a RADEON thing? And if NVIDIA would have been a easier option...regrets.jpeg

Any clues on where to start because I have all the resources you suggested but I feel a bit overwhelmed by them all tbh and don't know which ones to follow or install first.

Any ideas? Thanks again!