I posted in this thread (http://forums.libsdl.org/viewtopic.php?t=8785) about SYN_DROPPED and joystick axes, but just in case it got lost, I had a slightly different issue. I experienced it with buttons in OpenELEC on Raspberry Pi. I needed to apply the fix to 1.2.15 so I regret that I don’t have a patch to offer, but you can see the fix in my OpenELEC build patch here (https://github.com/jeffgriffin/OpenELEC.tv/blob/9b4f5191eaefa3362ff445577bf0ac1b0dd8414e/packages/multimedia/SDL/patches/SDL-1.2.15-stuck_button_fix.patch).