7i96S card arrived what setup is recomended

Samuelx wrote:

could not install mesact.
 

Why?

JT

Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought anything Mint 20 forward was problematic at best. Hence the advice to stay with Debian O.S.'s

I have LinuxMint 21 on this PC for the moment and the only issues I have so far is the menu is screwed up and you can't remove the generic kernel... enough reason for me to try Debian 11.4 and possibly change to unstable.

JT

If I want to connect my closed loop setepper motor encoders to linuxcnc, what kind on mesacard is good match with 7196s
Is this good option  store.mesanet.com/index.php?route=produc...69_71&product_id=125
 

Normally nothing else is needed.

If you have dual feedback (linear encoders on the axis)
you could add an encoder interface card.

How you connect encoders to 7i96s?
There is only 1 encoder input for spindle encoder.
I got this motors and drivers
www.aliexpress.com/item/32452247259.html...t.0.0.21ef1802gwycFV