Very well, so now that I know that Mach version should not be an issue, that eliminates 1presumption. Now ... regarding the breakout board that I have is simply a printer cable with pins soldered on one end and are then connected directly to the switches, hence I don't think that it qualifies as a breakout board. Therefore I have to presume that I need to set Printer Port 2 to EPP, which I have no idea how to do this or what it means. Just in case my preceding idea of re-allocating different pin outs for the encoder does not work, can you please elaborate a bit on the EPP term and how to do this?
Thanks
Marting