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A web search suggests that the following will compensate for the hardware issues you are experiencing
I do not have your hardware and therefore cannot test.....

edit /etc/default/grub and add parameters for i8042

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i8042.notimeout i8042.nomux"

then run
$ sudo update-grub
and reboot

When done correctly they will show on the kernel command line
$cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-?.??.???? root=/dev/???? ro quiet splash i8042.notimeout i8042.nomux