Mac monitor to Gatewy Laptop

I have an Apple Cinema HD Display and am trying to connect it to a Gateway laptop. The laptop does not have a DVI plug-in so am using a DVI to VGA adapter. With the cables connected the screen remains blank.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!

What type of DVI to VGA adapter are you talking about?
The ACD does not have VGA input, and your laptop does not have DVI output, so what you need is a very expensive video transcoder (to convert analog VGA signal to digital DVI signal). A simple inline adaper won't do the job.

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