hello all, Im new to laptop.I have a TOSHIBA laptop that has win2000 and Redhat-8.0 Its all fine with win2000 but when I try to shut down the machine,the screen flickers and will not shutdown.Instead I have to press the power button.That again results in improper shutdown.I could somehow figure out that it is indeed displaying the shutdown messages only on the top row of the screen.Again sometimes the message remains the same and the screen flickers.The message is difficult to notice.Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Regards- kaushal - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html