Alternative use pavucontrol or KDE sound setup windows HW tab to set the internal and HDMI cards mode into 'disabled' from '2.0 Stereo output, Stereo Input.' or what ever it is set for. This makes sure only the usb card is used, as its the only one PA apps see as usable then. No real idea about the 1st one... have you installed pulseadio-alsa and alsa-plugins ?. I don't know what is the state of flashplugin our repos, but it might need lib32-{libpulse,alsa-libs} pkgs to function propelly whith PA.... -- (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.)