What does this means, "psmouse serio1: synaptics: Unable to query device: -5" ? What can I do about it?

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I think my touchpad works fine or is it?

    pranav@fedora ~> journalctl | grep 'psmouse' | grep 'Jun 03'
    Jun 03 08:57:59 fedora kernel: psmouse serio1: synaptics: Unable to query device: -71
    Jun 03 08:58:04 fedora kernel: psmouse serio1: Failed to enable mouse on isa0060/serio1
    Jun 03 11:28:56 fedora kernel: psmouse serio1: Failed to disable mouse on isa0060/serio1
    Jun 03 11:28:58 fedora kernel: psmouse serio1: Failed to disable mouse on isa0060/serio1
    Jun 03 13:21:31 fedora kernel: psmouse serio1: synaptics: Unable to query device: -5
    Jun 03 13:21:36 fedora kernel: psmouse serio1: Failed to enable mouse on isa0060/serio1

I was wondering if there something I can do about this. Or should I just ignore this?
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What does it mean?

Edit:
From sudo dmesg log:

    [    2.052161] input: DLL0641:00 06CB:7621 Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/INT3433:00/i2c-0/i2c-DLL0641:00/0018:06CB:7621.0002/input/input15
    [    2.052290] input: DLL0641:00 06CB:7621 Touchpad as /devices/pci0000:00/INT3433:00/i2c-0/i2c-DLL0641:00/0018:06CB:7621.0002/input/input16
    [    2.052394] hid-multitouch 0018:06CB:7621.0002: input,hidraw1: I2C HID v1.00 Mouse [DLL0641:00 06CB:7621] on i2c-DLL0641:00
    [    2.090020] psmouse serio1: synaptics: Unable to query device: -5
    [    7.270129] input: PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input6
    [    7.523795] psmouse serio1: Failed to enable mouse on isa0060/serio1
    [    7.525071] checking generic (b0000000 408000) vs hw (c0000000 1000000)
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007, if your touchpad is responsive to finger sliding & tapping, I would not worry too much…

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yes, there is no problem so far. I can totally ignore it.

After my research I tend to found that:

pranav@fedora ~> sudo modprobe --show-depends psmouse
builtin psmouse
pranav@fedora ~> dnf info libinput
Installed Packages
Name         : libinput
Version      : 1.18.0
Release      : 1.fc34
Architecture : x86_64
Size         : 521 k
Source       : libinput-1.18.0-1.fc34.src.rpm
Repository   : @System
From repo    : updates
Summary      : Input device library

I think fedora is using libinput for the keyboard and synaptic for the mouse.
Apparently there are some ways to stop.

Now that I really notice, I do think there is a touchpad problem. I didn’t consider it as a problem because it seems to grow on me, but now I see, its a real thing. Here who it looks like:

In Firefox, whenever I select a word and try to right-click on it. and I see options like copy, inspect, save page as, etc options. Before I choose anything, something getting automatically chosen without me tapping on any option. As if I selected an option or touched an option. This happens 1 out of 5 times.

I did increase the mouse speed from the GNOME setting, but I don’t think, it is the one who is causing this (or does it!).

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I think I got an official statement saying there is something wrong with the way libinput treats my touchpad.

pranav@fedora ~> journalctl -f -o cat /usr/bin/gnome-shell
See https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/1.18.1/touchpad-jumping-cursors.html for details
libinput error: event9  - DLL0641:00 06CB:7621 Touchpad: WARNING: log rate limit exceeded (5 msgs per 2h). Discarding future messages.
Received error from D-Bus search provider org.gnome.Photos.desktop during GetResultMetas: Gio.DBusError: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface “org.gnome.Shell.SearchProvider2” on object at path /org/gnome/Photos/SearchProvider
Wrong number of result metas returned by search provider org.gnome.Photos.desktop: expected 5 but got 0
libinput error: event9  - DLL0641:00 06CB:7621 Touchpad: kernel bug: Touch jump detected and discarded.
See https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/1.18.1/touchpad-jumping-cursors.html for details
libinput error: event9  - DLL0641:00 06CB:7621 Touchpad: kernel bug: Touch jump detected and discarded.
See https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/1.18.1/touchpad-jumping-cursors.html for details
libinput error: event9  - DLL0641:00 06CB:7621 Touchpad: kernel bug: Touch jump detected and discarded.
See https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/1.18.1/touchpad-jumping-cursors.html for details
^Zfish: Job 2, 'journalctl -f -o cat /usr/bin/g…' has stopped
pranav@fedora ~>
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Those seem to be wayland messages. Have you tried X to see if it may be related to wayland vs X?