I applied the patch supplied in the forums to get lirc 0.7.1pre3 working. I can use irrecord to get the info on my DirecTiVo remote and it works perfectly.
However, when I try to use irrecord (with or without -f) to learn my Sky Italia remote (necessary for changing the channel on the satellite receiver) irw never recognizes the buttons when I use the generated config file.
Any ideas?