Comment 13 for bug 1798363

(In reply to Ryan Reich from comment #4)
> I also have this exact problem. The frozen pointer can actually be revived
> with `xinput --disable 13; xinput --enable 13` (substitute the correct
> number from the `xinput` listing). A palm or 5-finger touch will not
> respond to this, however, and can only be fixed by suspending and resuming
> (which, I assume, has the same effect as the `modprobe` cycle, but I have
> compiled the driver in). Occasionally, the entire keyboard freezes and I
> need to reboot.

I have not tried that. I also have all the multitouch features turned off. The difference between my "work around" and yours is that mine resets the whole driver not just the touchpad. It seems to be an issue with the architecture related to the Coffee Lake series of Intel processors.