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Find the package which works for the 2d lidar you have. Basically this is the ROS driver for the lidar you have. That package would publish a pointcloud message which can be viewed in rviz. In rviz, you have to select proper fixed and target frames. Then add a pointcloud message and select the topic on which pointcloud message is published.

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