On my laptop, everything pretty much works fine, even with nvidia gpu, so it 'can' work.
Can you provide more information about the laptop and GPU model, and the driver you used?
If your card is still supported by nvidia, I'd try to use the latest proprietary driver 'nvidia-dkms'. It should ensure the driver's playing well with your kernel.
@Kaldo
On my laptop, everything pretty much works fine, even with nvidia gpu, so it 'can' work.
Can you provide more information about the laptop and GPU model, and the driver you used?
If your card is still supported by nvidia, I'd try to use the latest proprietary driver 'nvidia-dkms'. It should ensure the driver's playing well with your kernel.