Oh well, my main objective was achieved as long as libreoffice impress works fine as I'm donating it to my church for them to do presentations. Thanks anyways, I donated to your project because it's very good. Best wishes to you and your team.
I figured out what the problem was finally. But still unsatisfied.
I went back to bananian and checked to see if USB's worked for keyboard/mouse, they did not. I remembered I used a powered usb3 hub for bananian to get my external hard drives working. So I plugged the powered usb3 hub to the banana then plugged in the usb adapter for keyboard and mouse on the hub. They worked then. I'm guessing the banana isn't able to give enough power to power the mouse/keyboard adapter. I'm going to try armbian ubuntu again and see how things go.
This is the usb hub i used: https://www.amazon.ca/ORICO-Aluminum-12V2-5A-Adapter-3-3Ft/dp/B00BIDTU04
WIthout the hub, when I plug in the mouse/keyboard adapter I get the message: unable to enumerate usb device on port 1
Edit: I've confirmed that no power is going to the usb ports. I'm gonna go look through the banana pi m1 schematics to see if I can somehow do some soldering magic to route power from the microusb port to the USB ports. Thanks for all the help.
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