Solved: Pisnes gamepad or keyboard control only after plugging in a mouse

[roelofpieter]

Had a bright moment in the shower this morning where I thought that the plugging in of a mouse might trigger the load of a kernel module. This would explain why it works after plugging in a mouse. And indeed: lsmod showed the module "mousedev" loaded after plugging in a mouse while it wasn't there before. I added the module to /etc/modules and all is fine now. A little weird that this module is needed to use my keyboard in pisnes but hey, it works...

Next: starting a game from XBMC, but that's a completely different challenge :-)