As I don't vahe a good understanding of the rc subsystem I asked on linux-media what's going on here and according to Mauro the absence of rc6 seems to be a kernel bug:
https://<email address hidden>/msg98286.html
> That's said, from his report:
>
> $ sudo ir-keytable
> Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event4) with:
> Driver imon, table rc-imon-pad
> Supported protocols: other
>
> It should be listing both "other" and "RC6" protocols there.
> It sounds a Kernel regression. I remember one Kernel patch once
> broke the list of protocols. Maybe the fix patch were not applied
> on Ubuntu, or maybe some other regression happened.
As I don't vahe a good understanding of the rc subsystem I asked on linux-media what's going on here and according to Mauro the absence of rc6 seems to be a kernel bug:
https://<email address hidden> /msg98286. html
> That's said, from his report:
>
> $ sudo ir-keytable
> Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event4) with:
> Driver imon, table rc-imon-pad
> Supported protocols: other
>
> It should be listing both "other" and "RC6" protocols there.
> It sounds a Kernel regression. I remember one Kernel patch once
> broke the list of protocols. Maybe the fix patch were not applied
> on Ubuntu, or maybe some other regression happened.