losing settings switching to and from virtual consoles

[Peter Rayner]

I have a wacom graphics tablet that I want to maintain in "absolute"
mode. I also frequently use virtual consoles.
This seems to lose the absolute setting. 
Here is an example:
Within an emacs shell on the X display:
$ xsetwacom set "Wacom Bamboo 2FG 6x8 Finger touch" "Mode" "Absolute"
>  xsetwacom get "Wacom Bamboo 2FG 6x8 Finger touch" "Mode"
Absolute
<now switch to virtual console then switch back>
>  xsetwacom get "Wacom Bamboo 2FG 6x8 Finger touch" "Mode"
Relative

I have the following in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-wacom.conf
Section "InputClass"
	Identifier "Wacom class"
	MatchProduct "Wacom|WACOM|WALTOP|Hanwang|PTK-540WL"
	MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
	Driver "wacom"
	Option "Mode" "Absolute"
EndSection

which doesn't seem to help.
I bet I'm missing something obvious here but would appreciate a pointer.
Thanks in advance
Peter


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