Hi Wickwire,
Have you been able to resolve the issue?. If not, can you please check if you are using the correct binary driver for the board?.
Mali supports 3 windowing systems on Linux: Android, Linux fbdev and Linux X11. The correct version of libMali.so needs to be used in each case. For example, if you try to use libMali.so that was built for fbdev on X11, you will get eglInitialize() or similar errors.
These pages may help you get it working: http://linux-sunxi.org/Mali400 and (deleted).
Please let me know if you still have problems.
Tu