External Monitor on macBook

Greetings!
I am new to the world of the mac and have been thoroughly enjoying not seeing Windows. However, I am having trouble with the external display. I am trying to use an old (ok, really old) CRT - IBM G70. I have the adapter and it sees the monitor. HOwever, it never stops trying to set the display. Constantly reseting and reseting as it trys the various combinations.
The question:
- is there a 'supported hardware' list somewhere? Maybe this monitor is just out of luck?
or
- Can I manually set the dispay of this beast?
I've been looking, but I can't seem to find the answer. So, here I am. Aside from buying a monitor from this century (Christmas can't get here soon enough!), do you have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Duke

I think you might just be out of luck. I couldn't find anything on the MacBook but did find this article on the iBook video-out port
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60855
The iBook computer's video-out port works with RGB monitors that use the DDC (display data channel) standard for identification. Earlier monitors that do not use the DDC standard are not compatible
I imagine that this applies to the MacBook too but I don't know if your monitor uses DDC or not but it could be your problem.

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