audio works, but only as root

[Rich <rich@artsci.wustl.edu>]

Howdy all,

I've got my soundblaster card working, with appropriate entries in 
/etc/modutils, but it will not autoload, and I have to do:

su -c "modprobe sb"

to get it to work. My /etc/group entry has:

audio:x:29:rich

....so why can't I start sound as my (non-root) self?

Thanks in advance