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NVIDIA card IS getting recognised and works on my Windows 7 partition. I just now have installed Kubuntu 16.04 LTS. Everything seems to work fine graphically. However by looking as lspci I have checked and seen that NVIDIA is not being used (should show up for VGA right?).

I have NVIDIA Quadro M1000M with 2GB DDR5 and Intel Corporation Skylake Integrated Graphics cards.

If I do:

lspci -vnnn | perl -lne 'print if /^\d+\:.+(\[\S+\:\S+\])/' | grep VGA

I get:

VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Skylake Integrated Graphics [8086:191b] (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

If I do: 

lspci | grep NVIDIA

I get:

3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107GLM [Quadro M1000M] (rev ff)

THIS PART SOLVED NOW (see comments): I tried to activate this using bumblebee as in the instructions here : Link. Here it fails when I do the step sudo service lightdm restart and gives the error: Failed to restart lightdm.service: Unit lightdm.service not found.

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Use sddm instead of lightdm. Sddm is the display manager used in recent versions of Kubutu. 

sudo service sddm restart

You could also restart the PC which should have the same effect - the display manager will reload. If you followed the instructions correctly the NVIDIA graphics card should work then.

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