Help with mce remote

[Dbbd]

I am new to the pi. My first install on it was raspbian. Got the remote working quite easily, got me quite surprised, but not happy with xbmc on it. So now I try xbian.

It make me crazy, I can't get the remote working except the arrows and an enter key. I tried to irrecord a couple of buttons, but lirc just ignores my config file, arrows continue to work.

What bugs me most is Irw does not issue any output. As if lirc output socket is not the default.

What should I be looking for? How do I debug the lirc input chain? I guess that if irw would have shown me socket outputs, xbmc would work as well, how come irw does not show me anything, yet 5 keys do work with xbmc?

I'm using model b pi, with xbian 1.1 beta

Thanks,
Dan