diff --git a/recipes/pulseaudio/pulseaudio-0.9.21/pulseaudio-system-mode-startup.sh b/recipes/pulseaudio/pulseaudio-0.9.21/pulseaudio-system-mode-startup.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..528ceb9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/pulseaudio/pulseaudio-0.9.21/pulseaudio-system-mode-startup.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+echo "Starting Pulseaudio in system mode.."
+pulseaudio --log-target=syslog --system
diff --git a/recipes/pulseaudio/pulseaudio_0.9.22.bb b/recipes/pulseaudio/pulseaudio_0.9.22.bb
index 2368829..6d3adc4 100644
--- a/recipes/pulseaudio/pulseaudio_0.9.22.bb
+++ b/recipes/pulseaudio/pulseaudio_0.9.22.bb
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ FILESPATHPKG =. "pulseaudio-0.9.21:"
 
 inherit gettext
 
+inherit update-rc.d
+INITSCRIPT_NAME = "pulseaudio.sh"
+INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "start 99 2 3 4 5 ."
+
 #SRC_URI += "\
 #  file://buildfix.patch \
 #  file://autoconf_version.patch \
@@ -27,6 +31,7 @@ SRC_URI += "\
   file://armv4+v5asm.patch \
   file://fixbluezbuild.patch \
   file://ubacktrace.patch \
+  file://pulseaudio-system-mode-startup.sh \
 "
 
 #do_compile_prepend() {
@@ -37,3 +42,13 @@ SRC_URI += "\
 
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "ca85ab470669b05e100861654cf5eb3c"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "c6019324395117a258c048a6db5e9734551cc2c61dc35b46403ff00d64be55f0"
+
+do_install_append() {
+  # init script to start pulseaudio system-wide
+  install -d ${D}/${sysconfdir}/init.d/
+  install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/pulseaudio-system-mode-startup.sh ${D}/${sysconfdir}/init.d/pulseaudio.sh
+
+  # Disable startup of pulseaudio as a per-user instance
+  chmod -x ${D}/${bindir}/start-pulseaudio-x11
+}
+