[matoro]

I have this same mouse. It works perfectly fine as an HID-compliant mouse on Linux, including the forward/back buttons. You only need all that crap if you want to control the rainbow RGB lighting. And if you really that, there's a reverse-engineered driver here: http://roccat.sourceforge.net/

[arendtio]

You might want to add, that Roccat supported the reverse engineering effort in this case by providing hardware and approving the use of certain sound files:

> The reversed hardware is kindly provided by Roccat.

> The sound files and the Roccat logo are property of Roccat and are used with their approval.

A few years back, I owned a Roccat mouse myself and was delighted to find a decent Linux driver for it.

[floatboth]

There's also libratbag, which contains RGB/DPI/extra-button/etc control for a variety of mice from many many vendors

[RealStickman_]

If you want a graphical frontend for libratbag there's piper.

[SilverRed]

If you only cared about the basic functions, you could have got a much cheaper mouse.

[wruza]

Since when RGB Rainbow became Enhanced Function and dpi/buttons/accel/grip/etc became basic?

[stavros]

Well, since every mouse has dpi/buttons/axxel/grip/etc and not all mouses have RGB Rainbow.

[corobo]

When you buy the mouse with the RGB lighting over the one that doesn't include it