libirman, lirc, inconsistent codes

[Dave S. <dav...@pa...>]

reposted from last month, hoping to get a response this time....

I have an irman and lirc installed and set up, but can"t quite get it 
 all to work. There wasn"t a config file for my remote so I created one 
 using irrecord. But the results are irratic when testing the config with 
 irw (many keys don"t work and ones that do show the wrong key, although 
 sometimes I can get a key to work).
 
 I happened to have a cd player remote that matches an existing config 
 from the web site so I tried that and none of the keys worked at all 
 thru irw. I also tried irrecord with that remote and, again, sporatic 
 results.
 
 I also played around with the libirman tool test_io. This shows what is 
 likely the problem - I don"t get consistent hex codes for the keys pushed.
 
 example output from test_io pushing channel-up 5 times in a row...

 [57][6f][7f][ec][00][00]
 [f7][6e][b3][bd][00][00]
 [ff][ff][bf][e0][00][00]
 [6f][9d][3e][d7][40][00]
 [f7][5a][bd][bd][00][00]
 [40][04][09][00][2c][25]
 [ff][ff][ff][e0][00][00]
 [ef][5a][7d][bd][00][00]
 [ff][ff][ff][e0][00][00]
 [40][04][09][00][2c][25]

 Here are the specs....
 
 kernel 2.6.10_rc2
 lirc-0.7.0pre8
 libirman-0.4.3
 
 remotes
 rca RCU800MSL
 panasonic EUR7621010
 

 ideas? Maybe the IRMAN device is bad?