>> I have since done this in the last hour. I had saved the kerenl >>config this morning before finding the i915 driver. I went back to >>that config, turned on i915 support, and rebooted, etc. I did that >>before I wrote this message. however something has caused the system >>tobe unhappy with either mythbackend or mysql. I'm still having >>trouble though and I'm at a loss to figure out what's causing it. > > Is MySQL running? > > Run the usual mysql command and see if you can login. > > If MySQL is not running then do "/etc/init.d/mysql start && rc-update add > mysql default"
Check MySQL logs also. Usually found in /var/log/mysql -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list