[plug] I am Mythtified by Mythtv

[Adam Hewitt]

Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:
> 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.

The new P4's have Multi-threading which basically gives you two virual 
cpu's. In order to get the msot out of your multi-threading cpu you need 
to run an SMP kernel (which does stand for Symmetric Multi Processing). 
You also need this kernel if you run a multi processor machine.

Adam.

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