Psmouse issue

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Sometimes when my laptop goes to sleep, my touchpad stop working. There’s no pattern, if there is I never noticed. The only thing that I found was a log saying “psmouse serio3: probe with driver psmouse failed with error -1”. Has anyone ever faced this issue too? And how did you fixed it?

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  • Date generated: 2025-05-17 13:10:06

Hardware Information:

  • Hardware Model: Lenovo ThinkPad T480
  • Memory: 24.0 GiB
  • Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-8350U × 8
  • Graphics: Intel® UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2)
  • Disk Capacity: 256.1 GB

Software Information:

  • Firmware Version: N24ET79W (1.54 )
  • OS Name: Fedora Linux 42 (Workstation Edition)
  • OS Build: (null)
  • OS Type: 64-bit
  • GNOME Version: 48
  • Windowing System: Wayland
  • Kernel Version: Linux 6.14.6-300.fc42.x86_64
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I’ve had the same issue on a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 3 since Fedora 35.

I used Pop! OS for a while, and the way I worked around it there was re-registering the psmouse kernel module

sudo modprobe -r psmouse && sleep 5 && sudo modprobe psmouse

The problem is that Fedora does not allow removing this module

modprobe: FATAL: Module psmouse is builtin.

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