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Thank you MaHa! That did the trick. I messed with the lightdm.conf last night but I didn't know what i was doing, got scared, and changed it back to how it was.

RotorySMP, im gonna try the auto-launch next.

Thanks. but, I am unsure how and or what I would target for the permission? would you have an example?

Have a look at how Qtplasmac does it. Normally, you would home the machine, turn the laser on and jog the machine. When the laser is in position, press a GUI button  that sets the G54 offsets based on the XY difference between the tool and the laser. Then optionally, goto 0,0 to centre the tool over the laser position. You need to save those offsets somewhere, but best to do in the ini file.
eg:
[LASER]
laser-x 20
laser-y 30

This is using the 7i76e but more or less the same

probably need to give permissions to the user for the par port

pipci.jeffgeerling.com/#other-cards

Has a list of cards that work.

BAR and arm64 have issues or no support.
For extra IO either mesa or the RIO project are best bet.

Not sure if this helps?

cnc@raspberrypi:~$ sudo lspci -v
0000:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM2712 PCIe Bridge (rev 21) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 39
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: 80000000-800fffff [size=1M] [32-bit]
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: [disabled] [64-bit]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [ac] Express Root Port (Slot-), MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [160] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [180] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0000 Rev=0 Len=028 <?>
Capabilities: [240] L1 PM Substates
Capabilities: [300] Secondary PCI Express
Kernel driver in use: pcieport

0000:01:00.0 Parallel controller: MosChip Semiconductor Technology Ltd. MCS9900 Multi-I/O Controller (prog-if 03 [IEEE1284])
Subsystem: Asix Electronics Corporation (Wrong ID) MCS9900 Multi-I/O Controller
Flags: fast devsel
Memory at 1b80000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=4K]
Memory at 1b80001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=4K]
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [78] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [80] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [800] Advanced Error Reporting

0001:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Broadcom Inc. and subsi

Use sudo with lspci, a lot of info is not accessible without it

The 5i25_5ABOBx2.bit is matching my china bob?

Yes, it has a slightly different pinout but is designed for that BOB.
It supports all 5 Axis (on each BOB) so has a stepgen pin on IO7=DB25 pin 17
but was designed to easily reclaim the pins as GPIO since it uses stepgen
8,9 for the per BOB 5th axis so by setting num_stepgens to 8, you can get 4 stepgens
per connector and still have the relay GPIO free.


You could also just recompile your bit file and change the PWM dir pin to just a GPIO pin

The problem with using the PWM DIR pin is that it depends on the PWM sign, this
may work if you connect the PWM value to the signed spindle speed command
rather than the absolute spindle speed command (you may still need to invert the DIR pin).
The advantage is that this may work with your existing bitfile.
 

I've been gone from LinuxCNC for about 10 yrs. Thought I'd give a try again. And with that I have been working with pi5 GPIOs work fine but thought I might attempt a waveshare pcie adapter and that to the MosChip parallel port card which works in my old PC to run my plasma table.
Where I am at is, LinuxCNC recognizes the MosChip card but shows this error below. Any help would be appreciated.

Note the pcie adapter is from Amazoncnc@raspberrypi:~$ lspci -vv
0000:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM2712 PCIe Bridge (rev 21) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSELhttps://www.amazon.com/Waveshare-PCIe-x1-Board-Compatible/dp/B0DYCHPBL3/ref=sr_1_9?crid=33VGWMUG0BYP3&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ypQynbq41MCoeL4QGbABJHPTLsXcsupt4y410Y7-ojV6fTZ0l1M0KgsBg1J-yDKzsnJKpEpvTI-4IPJQlz7VGpzcEdx4HVRXnVcwc6LUxmMsNXybT09m7bEUKP-XrAHi_aLbnWLF7A4PnWWFlLrgbw_c4POs6tvwYKhloFUVozBtrmY_6VMjehxaNp7EqRCznyaAfjPxqCbt5p75su5ewqCcAUu9DFlwG6k9lVeqdqE.BDsiMCAAEEQHMEl5wAkZVBy3hYMhbq_P1rJMjNTIVSc&dib_tag=se&sprefix=waveshare+pcie%2Caps%2C95

 =fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 39
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: 80000000-800fffff [size=1M] [32-bit]
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: [disabled] [64-bit]
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- VGA16- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport

0000:01:00.0 Parallel controller: MosChip Semiconductor Technology Ltd. MCS9900 Multi-I/O Controller (prog-if 03 [IEEE1284])
Subsystem: Asix Electronics Corporation (Wrong ID) MCS9900 Multi-I/O Controller
Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0
Region 2: Memory at 1b80000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=4K]
Region 5: Memory at 1b80001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

0001:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM2712 PCIe Bridge (rev 21) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 40
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: 00000000-005fffff [size=6M] [32-bit]
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: [disabled] [64-bit]
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- VGA16- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport

0001:01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Raspberry Pi Ltd RP1 PCIe 2.0 South Bridge
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 40
Region 0: Memory at 1f00410000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Region 1: Memory at 1f00000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [virtual] [size=4M]
Region 2: Memory at 1f00400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: rp1

How about a UPS for the pc.

In Debian, XFCE i use this:

OK I've got my machine setup to use geany as the program text editor in my ini. program would upen if i hit "edit" gui button.  Tool table wouldn't open using the drop down in axis. My tool.tbl does work though, as I can open it externally and add tools and linuxcnc picks it up. Then I tried switching my ini to use gedit just to see what happens.  It appears new linuxcnc doest have gedit anymore so it didn't work. Switched back to geany, and now neither tool table or program edit works. Seems buggy. Will my pyvcp panel work or easily port to a not-terrible gui?

Hmm I'm not seeing any options in Debian to auto login. I did some googling here and there over the last few weeks and havnt found a good way yet. My 10+ year old Ubuntu linuxcnc machine seemed a lot simpler to get going. Debian seems annoying so far.

Hi Andy,
yes it is that machine, It is not the only machine, it is the only prototype of the NC version..

My information is, that over serveral years less than a total of 20 units of all versions were built and sold.
There were 3 versions available
- a manual version (can be seen on on lathes.co.uk)
- a NC version like mine with combined servo-drives and handwheels
- a CNC version with a Siemens control,unit an without handwheels (there ios one on Ebay in Germany - can be fpund under "Prätecma")

Best regards

Hartwig