> Thanks to all who've replied. It now seems to be working (I used > mknod). The problem I am currently having is the message box that pops > up when GNOME starts saying permissions on /dev/pmu are b0rked. > Apparently this is an upstream bug, however. Yep. Access to /dev/pmu by unprivileged accounts is considered harmful. If that persists, I'll submit a kernel patch to silently ignore access to /dev/pmu (no error thrown) by gnome apps :-) Michael