On 2020-09-27 19:25, . via Dng wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a thinkpad laptop with a separate numeric keypad.  I was using
> devuan ascii with KDE happily on this machine, but when I upgraded to
> beowulf  I lost the use of the numeric keypad.  It appears to be
> KDE/plasma that's at fault, so I resigned myself to using LXQT instead
> of KDE.

Is it a USB keypad?

>
> But I also have issues with LXQT, including similar audio problems as
> what others are posting about.  I just tried to "apt remove" pulseaudio,
> but apt wants to remove lxqt along with it.
I suppose you could leave pulseaudio installed and disable it.

I use KDE without pulseaudio. Of course understand that I am not
expecting anything auto-effing-magical.