Ok, I've figured out how to go about compiling my kernel, but I get errors
relating to bootsplash which is the whole point of the endevour so I'm
getting grumpy.
here's the breakdown - I've got 2.6.8 debian kernel, and 2.6.11 from
kernel.org (after 3 tries with the debian I thught maybe something was
missing that bootsplash needs) well attached is a capture of the patch
processes.

I don't know what any of it means, so I don't know if that's actually
where the problem comes from. but I've attached what happens with the
kernel.org make xconfig command, and here is what happens after waiting
for the debian kernel to compile:

LD      drivers/usb/media/built-in.o
LD      drivers/usb/misc/built-in.o
LD      drivers/usb/net/built-in.o
LD      drivers/usb/serial/built-in.o
LD      drivers/usb/storage/built-in.o
LD      drivers/usb/gadget/built-in.o
LD      drivers/video/aty/built-in.o
CC      drivers/video/bootsplash/bootsplash.o
drivers/video/bootsplash/bootsplash.c: In function `splash_init':
drivers/video/bootsplash/bootsplash.c:895: warning: implicit declaration
of function `sys_open'
drivers/video/bootsplash/bootsplash.c:902: warning: implicit declaration
of function `sys_close'
CC      drivers/video/bootsplash/decode-jpg.o
CC      drivers/video/bootsplash/render.o
drivers/video/bootsplash/render.c: In function `splash_cursor':
drivers/video/bootsplash/render.c:256: error: too many arguments to
function `fb_copy_cmap'
make[4]: *** [drivers/video/bootsplash/render.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [drivers/video/bootsplash] Error 2
make[2]: *** [drivers/video] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8'
make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2


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Update for anyone who's having trouble with using bootsplash on debian:
After digging around, and a bit of desperate random search criteria I
found that there's a deb source out there (as there appears to always be
for this distro... I LOVE apt-get, it's such a nice invention)

just add http://www.bootsplash.de/files/debian unstable main to your
sources and viola, more themes than you'll ever know what to do with, a
kernel patch, and bootsplash itself.  just make sure you get one of the
sysv updates (there're 2, they appear to do virutually the same thing, and
are thus mutually exclsive) at any rate add those sources, and I suggest
aptitude to peruse the themes because there are approx 80MB of them.

apt-get install bootsplash kernel-pathc-bootsplash sysv-rc-bootsplash (or
sysv-rc-fbsplash)

then you compile the kernel with the patch applied that you just
downloaded.  needless to say the headache factor is then reduced.

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