Trying to move from UCCNC to Linuxcnc and using 7i96s but having trouble

I have been trying to get the encoder working for the past 1.5 days.  It is an amt102-v  5 wire a b index.  It worked well in uccnc but all i get when m3 is at speed light comes on.

Can you post your current hal/ini files?

There are basic steps to verify encoder operation

1. Run halshow

2. Select the watch tab and then the 7I96S  encoder position pin and verify that it
increments by 1 for each forward turn of the spindle

If not you need to check the scaling, encoder connections etc