Why is Fedora 38 missing the essential GPU driver component to have HW acceleration enabled by default?

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@daosans, you can utilise the undermentioned to ascertain this in the future:

  1. #!/usr/bin/env sh
dnf provides vainfo

  2. Updating and loading repositories:
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Repositories loaded.
libva-utils-2.22.0-2.fc41.x86_64 : Tools for VAAPI (including vainfo)
Repo         : fedora
Matched From : 
Filename     : /usr/bin/vainfo

@ypihoh, it was still not in oldid=709238, so I’ve submitted oldid=733622:

It is available in the libva-utils package.