Crashes upon startup

 I get the following when the program crashes upon startup:

 keithclark@keithclark-compaq:~$ torcs
 Visual Properties Report
 ------------------------
 Compatibility mode, properties unknown.
 WARNING: grscene:initBackground Failed to open shadow2.rgb for reading
 WARNING:         no shadow mapping on cars for this track
 OpenAL backend info:
   Vendor: OpenAL Community
   Renderer: OpenAL Soft
   Version: 1.1 ALSOFT 1.12.854
   Available sources: 256
   Available buffers: 1024 or more
   Dynamic Sources: requested: 235, created: 235
   #static sources: 21
   #dyn sources   : 235
 drmRadeonCmdBuffer: -12. Kernel failed to parse or rejected command 
 stream. See dmesg for more info.
 AL lib: ALc.c:1879: exit(): closing 1 Device
 AL lib: ALc.c:1808: alcCloseDevice(): destroying 1 Context(s)
 AL lib: ALc.c:1420: alcDestroyContext(): deleting 256 Source(s)
 AL lib: ALc.c:1818: alcCloseDevice(): deleting 26 Buffer(s)


 Keith


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