No, that just told us no native DRM kernel driver loaded. I specifically wanted to know about simpledrm. The inxi output doesn’t report that explicitly. 
Hi deano_ferrari, mrmazda:
My distrust of nouveau drivers stems from bad experiences with them on other
distros installed on my machines with NVIDIA graphics cards.
Hence, I’ve always been interested in ways to install NVIDIA legacy 304.137 drivers.
More recently, the latest versions of some other distros have nvidiafb drivers available
which offer another alternative to nouveau drivers.
For me, this interest in nouveau alternatives has carried over in considering NVIDIAG02
drivers and the current subject modules on openSUSE Leap 15.6.
I understand that as openSUSE experts with deep knowledge of, and confidence in the
top quality of, Leap nouveau kernel-module drivers, you would consider this current
investigation “much ado about nothing”.
I appreciate the time and effort you have spent on this matter to date, and I won’t bother
you with it any further. I’ll close this post off.
Len E.
Is that driver sufficient to permit a working graphical environment though? I would have thought a DRM driver of some kind was a prerequisite to that.
Hi deano_ferrari:
I checked my Zorin-17.2-lite installation on my Compaq test machine.
inxi -Gxx show that for the nvidiafb driver, the LLVMPipe is the direct renderer.
I entered the lsmod command, and there was no DRM module present in the list.
Len E.
Ok, thanks for clarifying. In any case simpledrm won’t be reported by lsmod. You’d need to check using the command I’ve already posted several times. I think you already said /sys/class/drm/card*/device/driver isn’t present on your running system, so I take your word that nvidiafb is sufficient here. I don’t own nvdidia hardware (old or new). My input into this topic was to show in general how simpledrm can work, (but it may require a more modern UEFI system perhaps).
A last-minute addition about compression options as mentioned on May 19:
The parameter rd.compress=gzip was added to the collection of boot options
for the initial install: it seemed to help.
Len E.
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