Comment 7 for bug 756583

I was able to get it working by uninstalling the unused, not working nvidia-current drivers. Somehow these drivers were probably called first by unity and were unable to function properly.

I also added 'nouveau' to the list of blacklisted drivers, since I do not believe Ubuntu has any way to use my nvidia card at the moment. Consider this issue solved and this 'fix' will probably work for anyone with a nvidia/intel hybrid laptop experiencing the same issues as I do.