Touchpad not working properly on Lenovo Carbon x1

I am using Ubuntu 19.10 on a Lenovo X1 Carbon laptop. Everything works well except the touchpad.

Essentially it works, but when the machine goes into sleep after being idle for a while (like 30 minutes), the touchpad stops working as well. The main problem is that I can't do two finger scrolling (one finger stable the other moving) to select text. When this happens the only way to select text is to move both fingers, which is not very accurrate and uncomfortable.

Secondly, if the computer is sleeping for a longer time (like an hour), the touchpad just straight up breaks and won't respond at all.

Looking around the internet, I see there's a lot of problems with Lenovo's touchpad and Linux. some of the solutions given are very complex and above my technical levels and appear to be work arounds rather than solution. I'm pretty frustrated, because I just bought this computer to be my main work laptop, but It's going to e ridiculous having to restart my computer throughout the day, just to get things done.

Anyone have a solution.

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