Mac mini works strange with Xerox XA7-19i LCD

Hello!
I bought a brand new Mac mini and connected it to my Xerox XA7-19i LCD which works fine with my PC. It has cable with DVI connector, and cable is not removable (other side is built-in in LCD).
After I power-on Mac LCD just blinks and after few seconds monitor reports "No signal". After pluging-out and then pluging-in DVI cable, I get the picture. And I have to repeat that every time. I have also BootCamp with WinXP which boots just fine without re-pluging the cables. MacOSX also doesn't detect refresh rate of this LCD. In MacOSX it reports only 60Hz, while in WinXP it works at 75Hz.
I borrowed Dell LCD with VGA cable and it works fine in MacOSX and WinXP, so I'm pretty sure that the problem is about properly detecting Xerox LCD while booting MacOSX.
Does anybody know any drivers or something like that for Xerox LCD for MacOSX?
Mac mini   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   1,66 Intel Core duo, 1GB RAM/100GB HDD/SD/BT/AP

Hello!
I found a "solution". It is not what a wanted but it is as closest I can get.
If I don't turn on monitor before I turn on Mac everything goes well.
So when I'm turning on Mac a wait for 15sec before I turn on the monitor. After logging, I change resolution to 1280x1024@76. Thing that I have to do before tuning off Mac mini is to set back resolution to 1024x768 or 1024x820 and turn off the monitor (don't leave monitor in standby).
If I want to change boot disk at booting time I have a problem, because after holding Option key it boots up in BootCamp and waits for boot disk selection. If I turn on monitor after 15sec the screen is black. Solution for this is that BootCamp always selects first MacOSX volume, so if I want to boot in MacOSX I have to just press Enter, if I want to boot WinXP I have to press Tab then Enter.
That is the only solution in which I don't have to plug out and back in DVI cable.
Is it possible to make some script which will change automatically resolutions on logging in and out?
Thanks!
Marko

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