Wow. Everything Emil F. wrote applies to my case. I too have W520 with 1000M and when I change to discreet it freezes shortly after logging into gnome/unity with either nvidia or nouveau driver. However it works well with integrated card or with discreet before installing nvidia/nouveau driver.
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