Connecting two monitors

ok so the mac pro has two different monitor ports after about an HOUR of searching i finally figured out the second port is an ADC port. now i want to hook up a vga monitor to it. is there and ADC to vga adapters out there. I have only found ADC to DVI. and also I am wondering can I just hook an ADC to DVI into the port and then take the DVI to VGA adapter that comes with the computer and connect it to the DVI end of the ADC to DVI essentially jerry rigging this to do what I need.
I have no idea for the life of my why apple has to make this so complicated.
heres some pictures of my video ports.
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/1475/1116070001uo1.jpg the two ports
http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/706/portkz0.jpg close up of the one port i want to connect to.
Message was edited by: vimick

Your pictures do show an ADC port, but Mac Pro's don't use ADC. What graphics card do you have? What computer do you have? Are you sure it isn't a G5, not a Mac Pro? They look similar (on the outside). ADC cards only work in certain G4 and G5 models with an AGP slot with a special extra motherboard connector for ADC power.
An ADC to DVI adapter followed by a DVI to VGA adapter won't work since the ADC to DVI adapter does not pass the analog video needed for VGA. ADC to VGA adapters are available, but are now scarce and expensive.
<http://www.welovemacs.com/mcaadcvga.html>

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