Thanks for you replies, it works fine by now. As posted above, one of the problems was that I didn't have the font server in the chroot installed, and another part of the problem might have been, that I did not have a bind from /tmp to the chroot's /tmp. Klaus Pieper: | I can | | dchroot -c ia32 -d | startx -- :1 | | without problems, where both environments are sarge, with X running in | the amd64 environment.