Logitech Solaar conflict with numeric keypad

[Don]

I'm running 14.04 with a Windows 7 VM. When I installed Logitech's Solaar software for mice on the Linux box, the numeric keypad on both machines became non-functional. When I removed Solaar, the keypad worked again. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Is there a work-around? Thanks.

[vinnywright]

what do you need the Solaar software for ?

their is also this https://lekensteyn.nl/logitech-unifying.html#ltunify

looks to work @hear

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:/mnt/btrfs/kubuntu/bin$ ./ltunify list
/dev/hidraw0: Permission denied                                                                                                                           
/dev/hidraw1: Permission denied                                                                                                                           
Logitech Unifying Receiver device is not accessible.                                                                                                      
Try running this program as root or enable read/write permissions                                                                                         
for /dev/hidraw1      
                                                                                                                                    
vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:/mnt/btrfs/kubuntu/bin$ sudo chgrp $USER /dev/hidraw1 && sudo chmod g+rw /dev/hidraw1 
[sudo] password for vinny:  
                                                                                                                              
vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:/mnt/btrfs/kubuntu/bin$ ./ltunify list
/dev/hidraw0: Permission denied                                                                                                                           
Devices count: 1                                                                                                                                          
Connected devices:                                                                                                                                        
idx=1   Mouse   M185

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:/mnt/btrfs/kubuntu/bin$ ./ltunify -h
Usage: ./ltunify [options] cmd [cmd options]
Logitech Unifying tool version 0.2-22-gc3a263f
Copyright (C) 2013 Peter Wu <lekensteyn@gmail.com>

Generic options:
  -d, --device path Bypass detection, specify custom hidraw device.
  -D                Print debugging information
  -h, --help        Show this help message

Commands:
  list            - show all paired devices
  pair [timeout]  - Try to pair within "timeout" seconds (1 to 255,
                    default 0 which is an alias for 30s)
  unpair idx      - Unpair device
  info idx        - Show more detailed information for a device
  receiver-info   - Show information about the receiver
In the above lines, "idx" refers to the device number shown in the
 first column of the list command (between 1 and 6). Alternatively, you
 can use the following names (case-insensitive):
 Keyboard Mouse Numpad Presenter Trackball Touchpad

VINNY