Was just playing around with 11.10. Was able to replace lightdm with gdm. Purged everything unity. System still stable.

However, gnome-shell still broken with ati graphics. bar is still scrambled and non legible.

Just letting people know that might be interested in this that it works.

I do like Unity, but I have ati graphics and I am having a hard time making it work the way I want. So I went and purged everything gnome and unity out of the system, everything X and fglrx related. Started from command line and built the system.

I guess Ill keep playing around until these stupid ATI graphics get fixed. Seriously, F*** AMD. I wish I still had Intel.