Mesa 7i95t encoder setup

Hi all!

I built a CNC Plasma table some years ago, running Mach 4. For several reasons i have been wanting to migrate to LinuxCNC, so i bought a Mesa 7i95t and rebuilt my control cabinet.
After wathing som youtube videos by The Feral Engieneer, and reading on this forum, i have set up a basic config using Pncconf. I created a config for a Mesa 7i96 and then renamed the card in the .ini file. This works, and i can move the machine around.

But i am having trouble setting up the encoders, since the 7i96 only has one encoder port, i can only set up one axis with encoder.
But when i tried linking this encoder input to the X axis, this the program chrashed when i tried starting it..
Can i just add the neccesary configuration to my .hal file? If so how do i do that? Or is there a better way to do this?

Any help is much appreciated
And thanks to everyone active on this forum, its a great resource!

Side note/question:
Why is the 7i95/7i95t not an option in pncconf?
Seems like a lot of people have had to work around this for several years...

Thank you!

After some fiddling i managed to get it to work
Thanks for a quick reply!

Regards
Sebastian