remote help, some buttons not working

[freeballer]

ok, well that was obviously the first place I looked but nothing worked.. thats why I posted

Code:

root@RaspberryPi:/home/xbian# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9512 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 2101:8500 ActionStar
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0471:0613 Philips (or NXP) Infrared Transceiver
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 2101:8501 ActionStar
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0e6a:6001 Megawin Technology Co., Ltd GEMBIRD Flexible keyboard KB-109F-B-DE
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 04d9:048e Holtek Semiconductor, Inc. Optical Mouse

Code:

root@RaspberryPi:/home/xbian# dmesg |tail

[    2.892221] usb 1-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=0471, idProduct=0613
[    2.898537] usb 1-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[    2.904606] usb 1-1.3: Product: MCE USB IR Receiver- Spinel plus
[    2.910852] usb 1-1.3: Manufacturer: PHILIPS
[    2.936701] input: PHILIPS MCE USB IR Receiver- Spinel plus as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.0/input/input0
[    2.943900] hid-generic 0003:0471:0613.0001: input,hiddev0,hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [PHILIPS MCE USB IR Receiver- Spinel plus] on usb-bcm2708_usb-1.3/input0
[    3.025837] usb 1-1.2.1: new high-speed USB device number 6 using dwc_otg
[    3.129427] usb 1-1.2.1: New USB device found, idVendor=2101, idProduct=8501
[    3.144901] usb 1-1.2.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0

Using "irw", "mode2" does not show any output at all. "irrecord" says it couldn't find /dev/lirc0

At the prompt if I press the numbers buttons sans command line tool it types "1 2 3... and so on",
which leads me to ask; Is it possible the device is being incorrectly detected as only a HID or would the xorg / x11
"take control" of it, and not parsing the input to lirc/xmbc?