MacBook Pro's DVI - TV's SCART

I've bought a DVI -> SCART cable and I try to connect the MacBook Pro to a CRT TV.
Unfortunately the TV's screen stays blank and Mac doesn't detect the TV after clicking the "detect monitors" button.
Do I do something wrong?

Nope, still running in circles. I'm positively sure there's some kind of a linux's Xorg.conf equivalent, where you can add your custom frequency, but didn't find it yet
BTW. I've upgraded to 10.5.2 in mean time... still no change ;(

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