Yelläks /ˈyæl•eks/

Today kernel 2.6.33 became stable. This post describes, how to get 2.6.33 running on a Debian box running on Lenny (the stable version).

1. If you use make-kpkg (like me) to compile the kernel, you have to get a newer version of the the package “kernel-package”. In Lenny the current version is 11.015. The compilation works with the version that is shipped with testing (currently 12.032). So download the package from a server of your choice and install it with dpkg -i <packageName>. All dependencies are already met.
2. Obviously the nvidia-kernel-source will create problems as usual:
   

   /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nvacpi.c: In function ‘nv_acpi_methods_init’:
   /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nvacpi.c:511: error: too few arguments to function ‘acpi_walk_namespace’
   make[5]: *** [/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nvacpi.o] Error 1
   make[4]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel] Error 2
   make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.33′
   make[3]: *** [modules] Error 2
   make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel’
   make[2]: *** [binary-modules] Error 2
   make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel’
   make[1]: *** [kdist_build] Error 2
   make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel’
   Module /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel failed.

   The patch from this thread in the nVidia forum helped and it works without any problems (apart from all the warning during compilation).

3. The kernel module for VirtualBox is quite aged and currently at version 1.6.6. The compilation process complains about missing files:
   

   In file included from /usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose/include/VBox/types.h:34,
   from /usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose/SUPDRV.h:39,
   from /usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:35:
   /usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose/include/iprt/types.h:87:30: error: linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory
   /usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c: In function ‘VBoxDrvLinuxCreate’:
   /usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:734: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘euid’
   /usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose/linux/SUPDrv-linux.c:735: error: ‘struct task_struct’ has no member named ‘egid’
   kmk[2]: *** [/usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose/linux/SUPDrv-linux.o] Error 1
   kmk[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.33′
   kmk[1]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose] Error 2
   kmk[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.33′
   kmk: *** [binary-modules] Error 2
   kmk: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose’
   make[1]: *** [kdist_build] Error 2
   make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose’
   Module /usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose failed.

   Fortunately it is easy and fast to be fixed either by applying virtualbox-ose-2.6.33.patch.zip or by replacing

   #include <linux/autoconf.h>

   by

   #include <generated/autoconf.h>

   in the files SUPDRV.h, r0drv/linux/the-linux-kernel.h and include/iprt/types.h.