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In Kubuntu 14.04 and 14.10 I stop the X server with

sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm stop

but it don't works anymore. How to stop it, to install a graphic driver ?

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I have installed my driver with the recovery mode -> network + root command – Guillaume Apr 25 '15 at 8:40
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I have found the command, because now the graphic manager is not Lightdm or KDM anymore. The new graphic manager is SDDM and the command to stop it is:

sudo systemctl stop sddm.service
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I do not see an SDDM service on my machine. I have 16.10 – Alexis Wilke Dec 14 '16 at 9:26
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You can use

sudo service sddm stop

(this worked better than the systemctl command for me - no freeze).

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