I failed to get a working OpenGL with libmali. A more performant GLES may give a more performant desktop, but won't make most games working. Since the community have been doing excellent work bringing rk3588 to mainline, it makes no sense to stick to a 5.x vendor kernel for a closed-source library with flaws, at least in my use case. The FEX's developer has explained the reason why memory usage is high under arm64, and I think box64 may also have similar problems.

Is it possible to switch the operation to the OpenWRT system OR Linux OR DTB Q17 android tv box = Tanix TX11 android tv box = Q1 android tv box .... Works but ≠ X96Q android tv box AND ≠ Tanix TX1 android tv box .... It doesn't work current system firmware: Android 14 specs: - ARM Cortex-A53 - 32 bit - Mali-G31 - Allwinner H313 - arm,sun50iw9p1 4 GB RAM DDR3 32 GB HDD model = "sun50iw9"; compatible = "arm,sun50iw9p1";

I would take this as a base: https://wiki.friendlyelec.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_NEO2#Set_Audio_Device I have several H3 NanoPi-NEO and use their on-board audio HW. If you want external audio HW, dig deep into Armbian GPIO config, it can be set with some text in armbianEnv.txt, but all depends the board pinout and just reading H5 SoC datasheet for pin and signal codes how to map. Done that for an AllWinnner A20 board and lot of internet searching as well.

So now it runs Linux at least. The question is why difference between LOG1 and LOG2? Is it because you reflashed it as well? Or just powercycle? And what image or what Armbian build command is it? How can people reproduce? You should set loglevel=7 so at least ohers can see what kernel is running. Random behavior mostly is because of HW issues. So powersupply not OK or bad storage or the flashing introduces corrupt datablock on the storage, bad cable, bad Windows computer/software. As it seems to be able to run Armbian Linux, you can also build/prepare a more convenient image, like with NetworkManager, Btrfs rootfs, etc. And completely prepare it first, as container or virtual machine.

these modules/configs are missing in 6.16.8 (vs 6.15.4): CONFIG_SND_SUN9I_HDMI_AUDIO=y CONFIG_SND_SOC_SUNXI_MACH=m CONFIG_SND_SOC_SUNXI_AHUB=m CONFIG_SND_SOC_SUNXI_AHUB_DAM=m CONFIG_SND_SOC_SUNXI_INTERNALCODEC=m CONFIG_SND_SOC_SUNXI_AAUDIO=m Could this be a problem?