MS RC6 Remote help

[cklemmer]

I've just set up xbian 1.0a5 and I'm trying to get my fairly standard Microsoft RC6 style remote working well. The directional arrows and enter button work just fine with no modifications to the configuration, but most of the buttons don't work.

I've followed the configuring a remote wiki article, but get stuck at step 2. irw doesn't output anything when I press buttons on the remote, even the direction buttons that are working. Many of the buttons do send key sequences to the console if I exit Xbian. Looking for pointers on how to get all these controls working and to be able to remap them (back button to esc, OK to enter, etc) I've sunk 4 hours into this and am at a loss...

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