Virtual Consoles should lines and the prompt run off the bottom of the screen.

I am using debian jessie and when I switch to a tty and run nano or a command all output has run off the bottom of the screen and I can't see the prompt or using nano can't see the last lines, but if I were to use nano in a xterm I would see all ctrl+ actions at the bottem of the screen I see nothing like that in virtual consoles and have been trying to resolve the issue of my tty screen problems with resolution corrections. After reboot checked vbeinfo at the grub cli added GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768x32 GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD="keep" then did update-grub, that only changed the grub menu also did echo $TERM & $LINES that returned linux & 28. Any Ideas or are virtual consoles limited like that?