Why don't the modules load under a user

[attrezzo]

I have a 2.4 kernel right now on a laptop but this same problem happened to my desktop when I had it on the gentoo-sources. Basically I log in as root, everything works just peachy, I log in as a user and this is what happens:

modprobe: Can't locate module ttyS* which is needed for /dev/ttyS*
modprobe: Can't locate module midi* which is needed for /dev/midi*
...
on and on for basically every module I have. I'v check permissions in lib but I could have been wrong so if you think it's a permissions problem tell me what I should set what to.
Please help...

[untiefe]

You can't load modules (e.g. use modprobe as a user) because the user is normally not allowed to change anything in the kernel...

What exactly are you trying to do?
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[Archangel1]

Generally you dump modules into your modules.autoload.d so they're loaded during boot. Why are you trying to load them later as a user?