Ubuntu – How to know whether an nvidia graphic card is installed or not

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My terminal says:

$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce GT 540M] (rev ff)

It seems to me that it is installed but can't find the control panel.

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You can see what graphic card is installed by going in System Settings... → Software & Updates and select Additional Drivers tab:

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