A few questions on setting up the system...

Well, I'm new to Arch coming from Slackware, and I'm enjoying it so far, except for some things. For one, I finally got X working, but I'm not sure how I should configure /etc/modprobe.conf to load the modules agpgart and intel-agp. Second, I know of Slackwares /etc/inittab, and how it loads the runlevels as set up in /etc/rc.d. Well, there would normally (in Slack) be a file there named rc.4 that sets up an automatic loading of a Login Manager (in my case, I'll use GDM). How should I configure this? I should be able to configure inittab on my own, but I need help.
P.S. I love Pacman. Very stable and intelligent, very updated!

Hi Zephirias.
WRT setting up 'gdm'.
Alternately, you could just change the inittab (without adding a reference to 'gdm' in rc.conf) by setting up a graphical startup:
id:5:initdefault:
and then changing the 'respawn' line at the end of inittab by changing
'/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon'  to the corresponding location of 'gdm'. I don't use gdm, but here's the relevant line set up for KDE:
x:5:respawn:/opt/kde/bin/kdm -nodaemon
You could also use something like the following line if you want to avoid X trying to restart again and again if X doesn't restart properly (e.g., when you have a defective XF86Config file):
x:5:once:/opt/kde/bin/kdm
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