HOWTO: Set Numlock on

[jeremy]

System setting -> Hardware -> Keyboard -> Numlock on KDE startup, select Turn on.

[haaglin]

If you want Numlock on before KDM, instead of after, you can do it like this:

#sudo apt-get install numlockx

#sudo kwrite /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsetup

and add this at the end of the file:
/usr/bin/numlockx

This is how my Xsetup looks:

#! /bin/sh
# Xsetup - run as root before the login dialog appears

#xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -notify -verbose -fn fixed -exitOnFail -file /dev/xconsole &
/usr/bin/numlockx