[MPlayer-dev-eng] Stuck mouse buttons

[Nehal]

> On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 12:54:00PM -0500, Andrew A. Gill wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > >
> > > Occasionally (but often enough to get annoying) when I click a mouse
> > > button on an mplayer window the button gets stuck -- hitting any key
> > > afterwards produces messages like
> > 
> > FWIW, I'm able to get around this problem by clicking the button
> > again.  It's not a solution, but while a solution isn't around,
> > you can try this.
> 
> Thanks.  This workaround didn't work for me because tp-scroll always
> sends the middle mouse button press and release events together thus
> retriggering the bug.  Now I'll know to use X's middle button emulation
> by pressing left and right buttons together to avoid this batching.
> 
> Marius Gedminas

try this, edit config.h and change '#undef HAVE_NO_POSIX_SELECT' 
to '#define HAVE_NO_POSIX_SELECT 1' , then recompile mplayer, 
the mouse problem should go away, it did for me

Nehal