This is an awesome effort from you all! I purchased a v3. 1 2gb ddr3 version off ebay for 25usd and tried out the mate graphical image and it worked like a charm. Just some feedback for you all and others like me that read this forum.
996mb ram I think it is as reported by other users also.
Vulkan graphics seem to be working, WiFi and usb ports all working out of the box. Bluetooth appears but I didn't try to connect to any devices yet.
I even tried the tiny stories 656k ollama llm to see if that would work and its pretty fast with some bad stories haha even the 1b parameter model loaded but it's barely working. I will try llama.c next to try get some. Kind of acceleration from the gpu.
Supertuxkart runs very smoothly.
I installed on a 32gb SanDisk tf card with no worries flashing using etcher.
It's quite a capable little machine.
I even managed to compile a game I'm building at the moment for Linux + dos called deadseas which runs rather well.
I havnt tried sound or anything yet as I'm direct into an old monitor via hdmi > dvi.
So much better than the stock Android that the x96q comes with.
Anyway thanks for your efforts!
