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Change in your ini file
SERVO_PERIOD = 1000000
to
SERVO_PERIOD = 2000000

Change
SERVO_PERIOD = 1000000

to
SERVO_PERIOD = 2000000

How to lower the servo thread period?

Sorry mate didn't realise you were still crook. 10 days did my head in when I had my femur fixed up with a Ti rod.

Feel free to fork my repo and take over the management of the installer.
15 days in hospital with still no Idea what is going on has made me a dat grumpy!

Oh come on who was this image for ? You or the community ?
ssh is pretty common utility not just for remote login but transferring files from one machine to another.
gvfs makes samba mounts effortless via the file manager, even The Debian installer now includes it as default, on a compressed image it takes up bugger all, and when uncompressed it takes up bugger all as well. Adding those two is really of no consequence to the size of the image. And from what I’ve seen it adds nothing to latency.
I agree with you regarding the keyboard thing but your reply “All of your issues are for programs I never use” is just bad form. Even a graphic network manager would make life easier for new users.

The raspberry Pi5 iwas released as we released the image for the Pi4b.
We reworked the installer for the different chipset. Use at your own risk.

A small footprint X86 machine like the Odroid H3+ or the LattePanda V1 are likely better choices but cost a bit more

All of your issues are for programs I never use. ssh maybe should be included.
I thought somebody got tigervnc working the other day.
I did not want to add any bloat on such a small SBC
I would not dream of installing any OS without a keyboard to start with
There are some notes on the linuxcnc download page

Although it doesn't have 5 step/dirs I'll mention my board here anyway. The firmware and component are loosely based on Remora SPI, and the hardware is somewhat similar to cakeslobs board:
forum.linuxcnc.org/show-your-stuff/50177-weeny-solder-bot
github.com/iforce2d/weenyPRU

The MCU is basically a 'blue pill' and unlike Remora the configuration of pins must be done in source code. It would be easy to alter the spindle PWM output to be a RC servo signal instead, assuming you don't need an actual spindle of course. But not so easy to add a 5th axis, I would need to check if any timers are still unused.

btw a 4Gb Raspberry Pi4 or Pi5 cost only 64 euro here in New Zealand, after being shipped halfway around the world. Why are they so expensive in Europe, makes no sense. As others have said, best to avoid the Pi5 for now if you want to use SPI.

Hi all im currently building my second cnc, and it is pretty small one. A little bigger than a 3d printer. I was to the point to chose a controller and i first think about linuxcnc but because it a small cnc its not the best choise because it require a "big" monitor. So i looked at the other options avaliable.
-Grbl, very limited in functions, require an external computer..
-Mach3, looks bad, lot of bad comments..
Anyway the only system that was the closest to my needs was chinese DDCS controllers but they are not very customizable and dont support all the gcodes that i want.
So finaly i decided to keep going with linuxcnc! The best one so far at a resonable cost! Then I decided to build my own interface. Or modify an existing one.

For the GUI design im pretty sure i can do it all but for the programming i think im gonna need help. If anyone is interested in this project to help me your welcome! 

The interface is for a 7 inch display and running on a raspberry pi 4 with a 7c80 mesa card. 
It will be a keyboard and optional touch screen navigation based interface. Here are some pictures of my design so far!

Let me know what you think about it!

Typically with a RPI4 you need to

set the force_turbo option true (in config.txt)
set isolcpus to 2,3 (in cmdline.txt)

You may also need to lower the servo thread
period to 2ms  (2000000)

i am using ethernet and mesa 7i96s   

It's going to help if you can describe your system, are you using ethernet, SPI or gpios (software steeping). Mesa, remora or other hardware.

Your HAl & INI files will help as well.

Yes I did 

Hi, I'd like to ask how to run LinuxCNC on a system with Xenomai 4  installed (Debian 12).
I installed LinuxCNC usingwhich is how I did it on a Debian 12 system with the preempt-rt patch, and it worked fine there. However, now with Xenomai 4, when I try to run LinuxCNC, it gives me a note: "Note: Using POSIX non-realtime". Does this mean I'm not leveraging Xenomai's real-time performance?
I'm sure my Xenomai installation was successful.
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Since there are few tutorials for Xenomai 4, I'm not sure what the correct steps are. My current guess is that I need to run it in the evl environment, which means I need to run it in root mode (sudo su). However, when I tried that, LinuxCNC gave me an error and didn't allow running in root mode.
So, I'm wondering if there's a way to solve this problem, or if there are any parameter settings that can make LinuxCNC run in the real-time core of Xenomai 4.
How can I run an application using the EVL core?
Thanks a lot!