diff -rU7 xserver-xorg-input-evdev-2.0.99+git20080912.orig/src/evdev.c xserver-xorg-input-evdev-2.0.99+git20080912/src/evdev.c
--- xserver-xorg-input-evdev-2.0.99+git20080912.orig/src/evdev.c	2008-09-12 09:16:52.000000000 -0400
+++ xserver-xorg-input-evdev-2.0.99+git20080912/src/evdev.c	2009-01-29 17:17:03.000000000 -0500
@@ -1174,14 +1174,15 @@
     {
         if (TestBit(i, abs_bitmask))
         {
             if (ioctl(pInfo->fd, EVIOCGABS(i), &absinfo[i]) < 0) {
                 xf86Msg(X_ERROR, "ioctl EVIOCGABS failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
                 goto error;
             }
+            absinfo[i].value = pEvdev->absinfo[i].value;
         }
     }
 
     if (compare && memcmp(pEvdev->absinfo, absinfo, sizeof(absinfo)))
             goto error;
 
     /* cache info */