Mesa 7i96S

will debian 11.4 (12 from your post I install) recognize it? I mean, will pnccfg give an option for mpg at the inputs (I need two independent mpg wheels) or do I have to do additional work afterwards in the hal? I'm still waiting for the card so I'll let you know, in mesact 7.1 I also couldn't manage to assign MPG functions to the inputs at first glance. Thanks a lot  

ok, the situation is the same in mesact, but I will see when the card arrives and when the system recognizes it, maybe it will change.

A friend of mine maintains the 2.8 package in the AUR (for Arch based distros). I've been running the 2.8.2 from this for over a year. I was able to get it to build 2.8.4 with minor changes to the PKGBUILD. My friend should be updating the package shortly.

Glade-GTK2 also builds from the AUR without headaches. Everytime I have to redo this LinuxCNC system I always try to use Debian first (not sure why). I got LinuxCNC to build but I had to abandon Debian for other issues. I always find Debian to be more of a hassle than it's worth.

Not sure what the "official" word on LCNC on Arch is being a rolling distro but Arch in general (or it's more user-friendly offshoots) are much nicer to deal with than anything Debian based.