[plug] I am Mythtified by Mythtv

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

christopher whittaker wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  I would really appreciate some help on this one, I am running fedora
> Core 2 i686 , fully up to date . Pentium 2.4, 1G ram, 120G hard drive
> sound card, video card, tv card , graphics card all recognized and
> working.
> 
> I have tried to run Mythtv from the panel and the Run Application
> box,and it wouldn't even load then when trying to run from the VI
> terminal got the following error
> 
> mythtv
> Unable to connect to database!
> Driver error was [1/2002]
> QMySQL3: Unable to connect
> database error was:
> cant connect to MySql server through socket 
> '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock(2)
> 
> cant connect to db

Have you got a database setup.  That may be your issue.  A thing I've 
found with my databases is your database needs to be 
localhost.localdomain or equivalent because it won't connect otherwise.

I think that'll be your issue however I've never setup mythtv so I can't 
guarantee thats the issue.
> 
> Also what is the difference, when I start my computer it goes through
> the usual but then I have a choice of what kernal to boot. i386(which
> was the original disc) which i updated to i586 which then gives me a
> choice of i586 ans i586smp what is smp

SMP stands for symmetrical multi processing I think.

It basically /makes/ your computer able to process multiple jobs by 
/splitting/ the cpu.  Obviously I'm getting this info from what I 
understand I'm not 101% sure.