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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?

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.

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?

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

yes it is

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

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

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

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.