diff --git a/install/hardware/intel/video-acceleration.sh b/install/hardware/intel/video-acceleration.sh
index bbcc1fe97e5..a990f081ad1 100644
--- a/install/hardware/intel/video-acceleration.sh
+++ b/install/hardware/intel/video-acceleration.sh
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
-# This installs hardware video acceleration for Intel GPUs
-
-if INTEL_GPU=$(lspci | grep -iE 'vga|3d|display' | grep -i 'intel'); then
-  # HD Graphics / Iris / Xe / Arc / Non-Arc Panther Lake use intel-media-driver + VPL
-  if [[ ${INTEL_GPU,,} =~ (hd\ graphics|uhd\ graphics|xe|iris|arc|panther\ lake) ]]; then
-    omarchy-pkg-add intel-media-driver libvpl vpl-gpu-rt
-  elif [[ ${INTEL_GPU,,} =~ "gma" ]]; then
-    # Older generations from 2008 to ~2014-2017 use libva-intel-driver
-    omarchy-pkg-add libva-intel-driver
-  fi
+# This installs hardware video acceleration for Intel GPUs.
+#
+# GPU generation can't be reliably told apart from the lspci name alone: "HD
+# Graphics" is Intel's marketing name for both Gen7 (Ivy Bridge, needs the i965
+# driver) and Gen8+ (Broadwell and later, needs iHD), and some older
+# generations (Ironlake, Sandy Bridge, Haswell-ULT) don't say "HD Graphics" or
+# "gma" at all, so they matched neither branch here and got no driver.
+# Rather than chase the naming with a generation table, install both drivers;
+# libva probes them in order at runtime and uses whichever one initializes for
+# the GPU it finds, so this is correct on every generation without a table.
+if lspci | grep -iE 'VGA compatible controller|3D controller|Display controller' | grep -qi 'intel'; then
+  omarchy-pkg-add intel-media-driver libva-intel-driver libvpl vpl-gpu-rt
 fi
diff --git a/migrations/1787689809.sh b/migrations/1787689809.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7200f13149a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/migrations/1787689809.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+echo "Install libva-intel-driver alongside intel-media-driver for Intel GPU video acceleration"
+
+# install/hardware/intel/video-acceleration.sh used to pick a single VA-API
+# driver by matching the GPU's marketing name from lspci. "HD Graphics" names
+# both Gen7 (Ivy Bridge, needs libva-intel-driver/i965) and Gen8+ (Broadwell+,
+# needs intel-media-driver/iHD) parts, and some older generations (Ironlake,
+# Sandy Bridge, Haswell-ULT) matched neither branch and got no driver at all.
+# Existing installs on the wrong side of that regex are left with a driver
+# that fails to initialize (or none), and this repair doesn't run itself, so
+# bring them in line with the new install-time behavior: install both
+# drivers and let libva pick the one that actually works for the GPU present.
+if lspci | grep -iE 'VGA compatible controller|3D controller|Display controller' | grep -qi 'intel'; then
+  omarchy-pkg-add intel-media-driver libva-intel-driver libvpl vpl-gpu-rt
+fi
diff --git a/test/shell.d/intel-video-acceleration-test.sh b/test/shell.d/intel-video-acceleration-test.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..26b5b7705d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/shell.d/intel-video-acceleration-test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+source "$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)/base-test.sh"
+
+leaf="$ROOT/install/hardware/intel/video-acceleration.sh"
+migration=$(grep -l 'intel-media-driver libva-intel-driver' "$ROOT"/migrations/*.sh | head -1)
+
+[[ -n $migration ]] || fail "a migration brings existing installs onto both VA-API drivers"
+pass "a migration brings existing installs onto both VA-API drivers"
+
+test_tmp=$(mktemp -d)
+trap 'rm -rf "$test_tmp"' EXIT
+mkdir -p "$test_tmp/bin"
+
+cat >"$test_tmp/bin/lspci" <<'SH'
+#!/bin/bash
+printf '%s\n' "${TEST_LSPCI_LINE:-00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Ivy Bridge mobile GT2 [HD Graphics 4000] (rev 09)}"
+SH
+
+cat >"$test_tmp/bin/omarchy-pkg-add" <<'SH'
+#!/bin/bash
+printf 'pkg-add %s\n' "$*" >>"$CALL_LOG"
+SH
+
+chmod +x "$test_tmp/bin"/*
+
+call_log="$test_tmp/calls.log"
+
+run_leaf() {
+  : >"$call_log"
+  PATH="$test_tmp/bin:$PATH" \
+    CALL_LOG="$call_log" \
+    TEST_LSPCI_LINE="${1-}" \
+    bash -c 'source "$1"' bash "$leaf"
+}
+
+# Ivy Bridge "HD Graphics 4000" used to match the same name-based branch as
+# Broadwell+ and get only intel-media-driver, which can't decode on Gen7 and
+# leaves vaInitialize failing outright (confirmed on real Ivy Bridge hardware
+# in basecamp/omarchy#7866). Installing both drivers means libva's own
+# fallback probing picks the one that actually initializes, regardless of
+# generation.
+run_leaf
+grep -q 'pkg-add intel-media-driver libva-intel-driver libvpl vpl-gpu-rt' "$call_log" ||
+  fail "the leaf installs both VA-API drivers on Ivy Bridge HD Graphics 4000"
+pass "the leaf installs both VA-API drivers on Ivy Bridge HD Graphics 4000"
+
+# Haswell-ULT and other older parts that don't say "HD Graphics" or "gma" at
+# all used to match neither branch and got no driver installed.
+run_leaf "00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b)"
+grep -q 'pkg-add intel-media-driver libva-intel-driver libvpl vpl-gpu-rt' "$call_log" ||
+  fail "the leaf installs both VA-API drivers on hardware with no name match"
+pass "the leaf installs both VA-API drivers on hardware with no name match"
+
+run_leaf "00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA104M"
+[[ -s $call_log ]] && fail "the leaf no-ops on non-Intel GPUs"
+pass "the leaf no-ops on non-Intel GPUs"
+
+# A PCI bus address like "3d:00.0" contains "3d" as plain text, and an
+# unrelated Intel device sitting at that address (not a GPU) also contains
+# "Intel" in its description. Detection has to key off the actual PCI class
+# name, not a bare substring, or a device like this triggers installing the
+# video-acceleration stack for no GPU at all.
+run_leaf "3d:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Intel Corporation NVMe SSD Controller"
+[[ -s $call_log ]] && fail "the leaf no-ops on a non-GPU Intel device at a bus address containing 3d"
+pass "the leaf no-ops on a non-GPU Intel device at a bus address containing 3d"
+
+run_migration() {
+  : >"$call_log"
+  PATH="$test_tmp/bin:$PATH" \
+    CALL_LOG="$call_log" \
+    TEST_LSPCI_LINE="${1-}" \
+    bash -euo pipefail "$migration" >/dev/null
+}
+
+run_migration
+grep -q 'pkg-add intel-media-driver libva-intel-driver libvpl vpl-gpu-rt' "$call_log" ||
+  fail "the migration brings existing Intel installs onto both VA-API drivers"
+pass "the migration brings existing Intel installs onto both VA-API drivers"
+
+run_migration "00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA104M"
+[[ -s $call_log ]] && fail "the migration no-ops on non-Intel GPUs"
+pass "the migration no-ops on non-Intel GPUs"
+
+run_migration "3d:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Intel Corporation NVMe SSD Controller"
+[[ -s $call_log ]] && fail "the migration no-ops on a non-GPU Intel device at a bus address containing 3d"
+pass "the migration no-ops on a non-GPU Intel device at a bus address containing 3d"