After saving the changes, exit X. After the Driver installation is complete, you may revert the default runlevel to its original state, either by editing the /etc/inittab again or by moving your backup copy back to its original name. Different distributions provide different ways to exit X.

To Stop X.Org Server: To Start X.Org Server: To Restart X.Org Server: In all cases, replace lightdm with whatever greeter/display manager you use. lightdm is Ubuntu's default display manager. Technically, you're stopping the desktop environment GNOME, which …

2012年8月29日 · To stop the X server killall Xorg or sudo killall Xorg if you are not owner of the process. Of course you must have a terminal to do that. One way if you cannot open a gnome terminal or an xterm is to start a text console; press simultaneously Ctrl + Alt + F1 keys, then login at the prompt (your password will not be shown, not even as asterisks).

2022年7月29日 · You appear to be running an X server; please exit X before installing. For further details, please see the section INSTALLING THE NVIDIA DRIVER in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com .

How do I stop X or start without it? I tried ctrl + alt + F2 but the X server is still running. I'm running Lubuntu 14.10. You can make changes to xorg.conf while X is running. You just need to restart X in order for the changes to take effect: killall X will restart it …

2013年7月16日 · However you can not install the Nvidia-Driver while X is running: -> sudo killall Xorg solves the problem. Then -> sudo ./NVIDIA-x68xxx.run. After the first Driver Install (orig. Nvidia 352.xx) i had a blank screen.

2018年6月19日 · I am looking for a non-distro-specific way to simply, cleanly, and gracefully stop an X session/server that has been started with startx, without logging the user out. Below are methods that have been suggested but don't quite accomplish this:

2017年6月10日 · Normally stopping the Display manager is enough to stop X. The more general way would be systemctl stop display-manager I think. I tried the stop lightdm service through 3 different syntaxes I found online.

2017年9月26日 · kill your current X server session by typing sudo service lightdm stop or sudo lightdm stop; Enter runlevel 3 by typing sudo init 3; Do whatever you need to do; You might be required to reboot when the installation finishes. If not, run sudo service lightdm start or sudo start lightdm to start your X server again.

2008年11月26日 · ctrl-alt-f2 to switch to virtual terminal. ctrl-alt-f7 to switch back. Edit your boot line from your grub menu. Reboot, press esc on bootup to enter the grub menu. Select you default kernel, press e to edit. Put a space, then 1 at the end of the line. Press esc, then b to boot.