cpufreq in mageia 3

[cumulonimbus]

Hi,

I installed mageia 3 on my laptop. So far everything seems to be working fine except that the cpu fan is making a hell of a noise.
I normally solve this problem by setting the cpu governor to "conservative" with cpu-freq. However urpmi does not find cpufrequtils ... I can't even check at which frequency my CPU is running
Am I missing something?

[sander85]

There is new package cpupower. Install it if you don't have it yet.

Then use this command:

cpupower frequency-info

In /etc/sysconfig/cpupower you can configure the governor you want it to start with.

[cumulonimbus]

Ok thanks!
I can manage my cpus now, however there is still something that doesn't work:
/etc/sysconfig/cpupower contains:

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CPUPOWER_START_OPTS="frequency-set -g ondemand"
CPUPOWER_STOP_OPTS="frequency-set -g ondemand"

however when I start my computer it is always set to "performance". Any idea on what is causing this?

[sander85]

Is cpupower.service enabled and started when you start your computer?

[cumulonimbus]

yes it is

[sander85]

Are you sure you don't have cpufreqd or anything else like that that can change governor too?

[Greenbow]

same problem here
fan is very loud
how do i reduce the noise? package cpupower is installed

[doktor5000]

At least provide some information, what's the output of

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cpupower frequency-info

and what's the content of

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/etc/sysconfig/cpupower

[ghmitch]

And if I were you I would REMOVE the cpufreq package if you haven't already done so. To my knowledge it is completely replaced by cpupower.