Not existing mouse detected, causing issue in touchpat

[claudiosala80]

Hello all.

In the last week, I had strange issues with touchpad (crash, buttons not working, ...)

Yesterday I did a format and re-install of Mint with Cinnamon, and I setup the synaptic drivers.
When I boot laptop it works for a while, but after problems back.

I run command xinput.
When all is ok this is the output

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claus@traiano:~$ xinput 
⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint Stick           	id=10	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad        	id=12	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                   	id=3	[master keyboard (2)]

While there is the issue, a mouse is detected

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claus@traiano:~$ xinput 
⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint Stick           	id=10	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad        	id=12	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ PS/2 ALPS Mouse                         	id=14	[slave  pointer  (2)]

I run this command and it fixed

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$ sudo modprobe -r psmouse; sudo modprobe psmouse

but I want to understand if there is a better solution

Thank you!