Comment 155 for bug 1791427

Thanks everyone for your work on this issue.

While the definitive fix is in development, and I need to get on with my X1 Carbon Gen6, I found a practical workaround that makes the problem a lot less severe to me. In my case, the following steps mentioned here earlier, bring back touchpad keys and trackpoint 100% of the time:

echo -n "none" | sudo tee /sys/bus/serio/devices/serio1/drvctl
echo -n "reconnect" | sudo tee /sys/bus/serio/devices/serio1/drvctl

I saved this to a script in /usr/local/bin/touchpad-reconnect.sh, and defined a keyboard shortcut in Gnome to Windows Key + T that runs this script. If my laptop wakes up without the touchpad, it takes just a key combination to make it work again.

Sharing in case anyone else finds it useful too.