I am puzzled as to how this is not a bug. The appleir module, which is a kernel patch that Ubuntu provided, made my Apple remote work fine. This patch has now been withdrawn by Ubuntu, though it is still available for up-to-date kernels; I'm working on finding out from the author, Bastien Nocera, exactly which is the current version. Now my remote control no longer works well (I can make it work with lirc, but not satisfactorily).
I am puzzled as to how this is not a bug. The appleir module, which is a kernel patch that Ubuntu provided, made my Apple remote work fine. This patch has now been withdrawn by Ubuntu, though it is still available for up-to-date kernels; I'm working on finding out from the author, Bastien Nocera, exactly which is the current version. Now my remote control no longer works well (I can make it work with lirc, but not satisfactorily).