>> Interesting. Every time I boot the PC, it turns off. Every time I log in
>> to the shell, it turns off. Every time I start X, it turns off. Every
>> time I stop X, it turns off. Every time I log out of the shell, it turns
>> off. It /constantly/ turns off.
>
> Mine never turns off on its own.  Just switched between several VTs and
> my X session, the state didn't change at all.

OK, well I guess it varies by distro then. This was, IIRC, Debian "potato".

>> I did once see somebody from the local LUG explain how to keep numlock
>> permanently enabled in the shell, but it didn't seem to affect X.
>
> "in the shell" - do you mean on a VT?  Or is it changing when you open a
> term window in X?

I mean in the text-mode screen that appears before you tell X Windows to 
start up. (I didn't have it configured to run at startup.)

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