Connecting to  a 15-pin XGA monitor

I have a PowerBook G4 12in. 867MHz and want to use it with my old radius PrecisionView 21 monitor (XGA, 1024x768). The monitor has both serial and signal ports, the only one I've ever used is the 15-pin VGA (three rows of pins). I see my PowerBook has a video port labelled "Video outout port" but I do not know what kind of plug/connector it is and therefore cannot find out if there is an adaptor or cable that works with both this port and the VGA port on my monitor. A very helpful forum member referred to the port on the PowerBook as a "dense connector," but my searches yielded nothing.
Does anyone out there have experience with this?
PowerBook G4 12in. 867MHz   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

Hi PaskentaGreen,
Welcome to the Apple discussion boards!
The port on the side of your Powerbook G4 is a Mini-VGA port. Your Powerbook should have come with a cable to convert that to regular VGA, but if your bought it second hand, it may not have. The mini-VGA cable should be about $30.. you can then plug your monitor in to that with the normal VGA cable you used on a PC. Make sure you get the mini-VGA and not mini-DVI that some later powerbook g4 12 inches required.
The serial port (round?) is just for factory configuration and service and does not need to be connected.

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