Trouble Connecting to external protectors

I was wondering how you can connect your iBook up to a protector, because i have been having trouble doing that with my iBook G4 (1ghz). I used to own an old G3 iBook which connected to the displays without trouble but I haven't been able to connect my iBook G4 to a display yet. My computer seems to acknowledge that the display is there but the display doesn't show an image.
iBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.3)   1ghz

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