How To Get NUM LOCK to Default to On?

Use the setleds program, for example (in /etc/rc.local or one of the /etc/rc.d/* files):

 for t in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
 do
   setleds +num < /dev/tty$t > /dev/null
 done

setleds is part of the kbd package ("How do I remap my keyboard to UK, French, etc.? ").

Alternatively, patch your kernel. You need to arrange for KBD_DEFLEDS to be defined to (1 << VC_NUMLOCK) when compiling drivers/char/keyboard.c.

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