First time linux cnc user - no stepper movement.

I cam from a "working" mach3/uc100 setup over to a 7i96s setup. K4030 drivers. terminal pings the mesa board. I have dir +/- and step +/- wired to the k4030 and 7i96s. a cell phone charger to power the 5v of the 7i96s.
steppers dont move. i have no limit switches hooked up yet and i configured the settings to not need to home first.
i tried connecting the 24/36v psu ground to com on the 7i96s, i tried connecting the 7i96s 5v to the dir + & step + (which is how mach3 was configured; and the dir/step - was 2 pins on the serial board).
when i connected 5v to dir/step +, and started linuxcnc, i did get "unexpected real time delay on task0 with period 1000000"

what do i have wrong?

once i get this figured out im going to make a video on all of this to help me next time and others. i have been on the struggle bus thus far.

side note, with just the 5v input and dir/step +/- hooked up, i get 5.09v between gnd & 5v, i get 5.09v between step + & gnd, i get .23v between dir - & gnd, and dir + to gnd i get 4.81v. on unused step/dir ports its the same except i dont get the .23v reading, its 0 instead.
 

Most common issue with no motion is too short step times
I would set the step length to say 5000 and try again

 

also, i am on kernel 6.1.0-7-rt-amd64 with an inspiron 545s

PCW wrote:

Most common issue with no motion is too short step times
I would set the step length to say 5000 and try again


i set the step to 32000 like i had it in mach3. is that too short?
 

 

i set the calculated steps from 32000 to 5000, no change in operation.

Not calculated steps, but the steplength parameter

thats the one with the drop down box for different drivers correct? if so i selected the k 4030

The critical one would be the "Step-On time" parameter

 

is it possible that the cell phone adapter power is the issue? i have a L7805CV L7805 Positive Voltage Regulator Output 5v TO-220, can i use one to power the mesa?