Star64 apps crashing constantly

[Der Geist der Maschine]

Thanks I'll check out Armbian.


UPDATE:
Armbian for Star64 doesn't seem to boot by itself. I assume I'll need to patch it with the device tree from Fishwaldo's image like you mentioned.

The armbian image is carelessly assembled.

Right now, I have ubuntu on my only micro sd card and write from memory:

After burning armbian on micro sd card, you need to mount its major linux partition from your Linux PC and rename /boot/dtb/starfive/jh7110-pine64-star64.dtb to /boot/dtb/starfive/jh7110-star64-pine64.dtb

Now you should be able to boot armbian. It misses one important kernel patch from Fishwaldos kernel. The stock armbian kernel is shutting down usb ports, e.g. your mouse and keyboard while Fishwaldo's kernel does not.

It is highly recommended to build Fishwaldo's kernel / modules / device tree by either a) cross-compiling it on your Linux PC or b) natively on your star64 via the serial console (which is not shut down).

If you trust random strangers, you can download these files from my webserver and copy them from your Linux PC onto your mounted micro sd card

• http://corona.crabdance.com/riscv/Image (copy into /boot)
  
• http://corona.crabdance.com/riscv/jh7110...star64.dtb (copy into /boot/dtb/starfive/jh7110-star64-pine64.dtb)
  
• http://corona.crabdance.com/riscv/modules.zip (unzip in /lib/modules/)
  

That kernel is an older backup and does not have my 8 GB patch from https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18263

Again, Xorg was pretty slow on armbian. We would all be glad if you can figure out why