OK, indeed using psmouse.synaptics_intertouch=1 with the 4.14.15 kernel produces the same problem: Touchpad is dead after a resume. So it's not 4.15 specific other than that in this version the parameter seems to default to 1, enforcing the (non-working) rmi driver. I assume booting 4.15 with psmouse.synaptics_intertouch=0 should switch it to using the old psmouse driver (not tested yet). But it's obvious that this touchpad doesn't go well with rmi4/smbus...