Numlock ON when starting X

[Longman, Bill]

> This is probably more a generic linux question.
> 
> When my system boots, neither in the virtual consoles, nor in X the 
> numlock key is activated.
> 
> I would like to change this, such that the numlock is by 
> default on in 
> the virtual consoles and X (including the graphical login 
> screen kdm/gdm ?)
> 
> Does anyone know where to change this ?

Geert, my Gentoo box has a numlock init script. It calls "setleds". The
"setleds" man page also references "loadkeys". You might be able to find
something along these lines.