Mac mini to lg flattron screen ws2043s

My son has just brought a mac mini and wishes to connect to a lg flattron moniter model w2043s . It has a d-sub connection does he require a special adaptor or a different cable. Buying another monitor or screen is not a viable option...
thanks adam

I'd be interested to see if you can get it working -- I have the same monitor and a Macbook Pro and I cannot for the life of me get it to work properly -- it just won't display in its native resolution (1600x900) no matter how hard I try! The option for 1600x900 doesn't appear on the list of resolutions, and when I manually added it using SwitchResX, the result is that (a) the screen reports a resolution of 1152x900 (?) and (b) the text appears garbled and the desktop windows and icons jagged. Please (or anyone else reading this!) let me know if you managed to get it working! Cheers

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