server image, there was no activity led tried 2 decent sd cards, nothing board and activity led works with radxa bullseye os on same sd cards

I am glad that you made it work. However, it looks like you are using another Debian Distro for RiscV, not Armbian (not a bad thing) I am continuing the conversation over there

Maybe something isn't right...

We checked and it works on supported build host. We need to see logs to understand why it is failing for you.

Hi Luis, seems the main difference in the x4 is hardware AVI Video decoding, may I suggest you try the latest S905x Armbian release (main forum page) and find a suitable DTB (trial and error, start with meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb. If it boots on your machine, you may have everything you need. Good luck.