20 inch cinema monitor to a imac g4.

okay. so basically i have the monitor already. in addition, i bought the apple dvi to adc convertor. so now i need to figure out how to convert my mini vga to dvi. i bought a small adapter on the net, hasn't arrived yet, it's a vga to dvi-i convertor. will this work? or am i on the completely wrong track?

If you have a 20" Apple Cinema display with ADC that you want to connect to a VGA port, you need:
<http://www.gefen.com/kvm/product.jsp?prod_id=1301>
The adapters you mention are for connecting a CRT or ADC display to a computer with a DVI connector.

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