On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:50:34 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>> 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".

Possible.  At the very least, there are ways to configure it to not do 
what you're seeing, but not knowing Debian, I couldn't tell you how on 
that distribution.

>>> 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.)

That's a "virtual terminal" or VT.  aka the "Console".

Jim

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