Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with adaptively determining settings of a transmit equalizer are described. According to one embodiment, a signal is received from a transmitter and a signal contribution of the transmit equalizer is removed from the signal to produce a residual signal. Revised tap coefficients are computed based, at least in part, on the residual signal. Revised tap coefficient settings, that are based, at least in part, on the revised tap coefficients, are provided to the transmit equalizer.