Dual sound jack

I can't get my sound to work through my audio jacks on my dv6t Quad. Is there a special adapter that is needed to get the sound working through external speakers when connecting them through the 3.5mm audio jack? I haven't had a laptop with more than one audio jack. Is there a way of deactivating the one jack so I can use the one other jack as a normal outoput jack? Is there a good reason for having two jacks? Please could someone explain this to me?

Hi,
Here is the reason to have 2 headphone jacks
http://www.ehow.com/how_6890012_use-laptop-2-headphone-jacks.html
We should be able to use 99% of normal 3.5mm headphones for 99% of normal laptops. Please enable Speakers in Playback devices as follows:
1. Right click speaker icon (right hand corner)
2. Select Playback devices
3. Right click Speakers
4. Enable it
5. Click Apply/Ok
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BH
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