diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/klibc/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/klibc/default.nix
index d016759e7747..b410e845a598 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/klibc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/klibc/default.nix
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
 assert stdenv.isLinux;
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "klibc-1.4";
+  name = "klibc-1.4.33";
   builder = ./builder.sh;
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/klibc/klibc-1.4.tar.bz2;
-    md5 = "f4e0e17fc660e59c39e448fe1d827d36";
+    url = http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/klibc/Testing/klibc-1.4.33.tar.bz2;
+    sha256 = "1831bphb4z1x8vkhqmvxkb617pb4dixq33bm0nc6qrxrwix0ylag";
   };
   inherit kernel;
   buildInputs = [perl bison mktemp];
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/splashutils/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/splashutils/default.nix
index 3c1f0efb835e..ba38825c006d 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/splashutils/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/splashutils/default.nix
@@ -6,7 +6,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     url = http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/splashutils/archive/splashutils-1.3.tar.bz2;
     md5 = "c7c92b98e34b860511aa57bd29d62f76";
   };
-  patches = [./purity.patch ./no-fbsplash.patch];
+  patches = [
+    ./purity.patch
+    ./no-fbsplash.patch
+    # Borrowed from http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/gentoo-x86/media-gfx/splashutils/files/splashutils-1.3-fdset.patch?rev=1.1.
+    ./fdset.patch
+  ];
 
   buildInputs = [klibc zlib libjpeg];
   
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/splashutils/fdset.patch b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/splashutils/fdset.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..44c61339c454
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/splashutils/fdset.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+diff --git a/core/render.c b/core/render.c
+index 290ea97..47319a8 100644
+--- a/render.c
++++ b/render.c
+@@ -9,8 +9,15 @@
+  *
+  */
+ 
++/* 
++ * HACK WARNING: 
++ * This is necessary to get FD_SET and FD_ZERO on platforms other than x86. 
++ */
++
+ #ifdef TARGET_KERNEL
++#define __KERNEL__
+ #include <linux/posix_types.h>
++#undef __KERNEL__
+ #endif
+ 
+ #include <stdio.h>