>> 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. can you please specify what you did with mknod to fix it? I'm having the same problem, but I don't know what I need to do with mknod (newbie here). thanks