2.6.12.1 kernel won't compile in fresh sarge install

[Daniel Johnson]

I've been trying to compile a vanilla 2.6.12.1 kernel because it has native drivers for my pchdtv [1] card that are not in 2.6.11.  When running make it gets pages of errors under drivers/char/drm/ eventually giving me a failure message.  I've tried both with using one of the debian configure files, and with just changing the processor type, and turning ext3 journaling support on.  Is there some special combination of build tools that I need, or is there some other reason why this won't build?  All of the tool versions I saw in the kernel documentation seemed to meet the minimum besides the ones that didn't seem to be apt gettable.  Does anyone know of an apt-get source for the new kernel?  apt-get.org failed me. 

[1] http://pchdtv.com/hd_3000.html